Crows are very smart! I've been observing the ones in my neighborhood for nearly 23 years, and have a small family of them that I feed every day (they LOVE dry cat food!), and they are a source of great entertainment. Naturally paranoid and extremely observant, they're tough to get close to. But these crows know well where their food comes from, and Tuesday they came and ate while I sat in a chair 15 yards away talking to them. I consider it an honor to be trusted by crows. I once saw a crow "trial." A very large group, probably 30, were standing in a circle on a lawn. In the center of the circle stood a big old crow and a young crow. The old crow was getting in the young one's face, really giving it hell, and the young one was cowering. He'd done something very wrong by the crow rules, I think.
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