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Crows are Way Smarter than I Realized
Who knew crows are so much like us?
While chatting with a childhood friend, she told me her dad recently befriended a crow. She visited her parents over the holidays and said she’d often see her dad staring out into the yard. When she asked what he was doing, he’d say, “Oh, just saying hi to my crow friend.” My friend’s story warmed my heart and made me curious about crows. Especially since crows occupy nearly every tree around my home, and I’m pretty sure they think our yard is theirs since they often caw when I trespass.
Crows have a stigma of death attached to them thanks to their ominous caws and complete black coloring, which admittedly, may have influenced my assumptions. However, pushing beyond superstition, science shows that crows are extremely intelligent, even more than I realized. So, maybe, the crows around me aren’t yelling at me — perhaps, they’re just saying hi.
Well-Known Facts About Crows
Crows belong to a family of birds called Corvid (Corvidae), which also include ravens, jays, and magpies. The birds in the corvid family are known for their intelligence and for living in a wide variety of habitats, including urban cities, woodlands, deserts, moorlands, sea cliffs, mountains, and tundras. As a result, they’re found on every continent except…
