CrowOsities
The curius world of crows and ravens
Some curiosities why they are awesome!
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A taxidermied raven in the free library of Philadelphia were didn’t just inspire his owner Charles Dickens, he also served as the avian inspiration for Edgar Allan Poe’s ominous black bird in the poem Raven 📖.
Fun fact is that Ravens can mimic human voices 🗣️ -
Crows and ravens can make tools. With high intelligence they can remember faces, use tools and communicate in sophisticated ways. But a newly published study finds crows also have the brain power to solve higher-order, relational-matching tasks, and they can do so spontaneously 🛠️.
Some crow populations in Japan, have walnuts are a favorite treat.
However, walnuts are difficult to open, so crows drop them repeatedly onto rocks to split them open.
Crows are smart, however, and they learned how to use cars as nutcrackers 💡. -
Many view the appearance of crows as an omen of death because ravens and crows are scavengers and are generally associated with dead bodies, battlefields, and cemeteries, and they’re thought to circle in large numbers above sites where animals or people are expected to soon die.
A group of ravens is called an “unkindness”, and a group of crows a murder 😨! -
Ravens remember faces Perhaps one of the most impressive, and unsettling, facts about ravens is that they have what is called “episodic memory,” much like humans and other primates. This allows them to remember human faces and other characteristics, particularly in association with an emotion or event, which leads to our next fact 🥸.
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There are white ravens These light-feathered birds are actually ravens with a rare pigment condition called leucism, which gives them their fair feathers and, oftentimes, blue eyes 🕊️.