Tool Use Sparks Friendship with a Young Crow

I've heard if you are friends with a crow it will teach all its family that you are a friend. Maybe it's a family member of a crow you've been good to.

I worked at a zoo for 30 years and the animals changed me profoundly. We always underestimate their inner world, intellectually and emotionally. All I ask is to try to bring more gentleness into this beautiful,brutal world. Appreciate each one fully.🕯️

I had a crow as a child in the 70's named Big Bird. I've also befriended more crows than I can count. I've never seen a wild crow ever be so humanized. My guess is that he was human-raised and has been on his own for just a short time.

I just purchased my 92 year old Dad a scraper for his birthday this week (he's very active) and I'm sending your video to him so he can watch while telling him this is the reason I gave him a scraper. It's not the real reason I gave him a scraper but I know he'll get a big kick out of this video as did it. Thank you for sharing this amazing encounter with a. very smart bird.

How wonderful! I have a crow that I started feeding during first lockdown. This year, 2023, she brought her mate and two kids for me to be introduced to. We 'do lunch' now daily with peanuts, ham, chicken and cat kibble. They let me know everything that happen in the neighbourhood. Better than a ring doorbell now. We all screech at strangers and the neighbourhood cats. The louder I screech the more they like it by appreciative croaks and much hopping. My Corvid Army grows...... I was the crazy cat lady but have diversified, just as my country wants me to..

One of the best things I ever saw, looking out the window while at a library one day...a crow came galloping along. And I mean galloping, with one step over exaggerated over the other. He stopped and picked up a something from the grass. A seed I think. Then he galloped along some more until he came to a small hole in the ground. He stuck the something in the hole, then covered the hole with a little beakful of grass and flew away. It was charming and made me smile.

Pretty much anything shiny or curious sounds will peek a crows interest. They are very smart birds and able to recognize faces so as long as you toss them a peanut you'll have yourself a crow buddy for quite a while.

My brother found a young crow, that was still to young to fly and as there was no adults around to care for him, my brother brought him in and hand fed him and he became a member of our family. He learned to talk and liked to play ball (a small superball, he could hit it with his beak right to you and could do it better then us most of the time, getting it right to our hands), liked to tease the dogs (would save some meat and place were they would see it, either peck them on the nose when they tried to get it or pull it away so they couldn't get to it) and he was a clown, do things to make us laugh. We tried to get the crows around to take him in, but he wasn't interested in them. We were his family. Whe he was something like 4 years old, my father though he got into some anti-freeze and died. Very sad. We thought we would have him with us for the next 20, 40 years or however long they normally live. I still miss Sam like 40 years later.

I think he wanted the shiny stainless steel parts...so he was actually trying to figure out how to dismantle it. Fascinating birds.

Thank you for having enough faith in our attention spans to skip music.

What a lovely video! I have been trying to befriend the crows at my house for years, as they are simply amazing creatures. You have really received a wonderful gift and thank you for sharing it with us!

Wonderful ! He’s so inquisitive. Can’t believe how confident he was in approaching you. You must be a good soul. Thanks for sharing. Crows are the best!

They are simply amazing. All the Corvids are. There's a lot to gain in life when you simply stop and take in the life around you. Spend some time in the woods and just observe and reflect, nothing more soothing to the mind.

Never mind the robots, it'll be the crows that'll take over.

The crow adopted the scraper and fed it some food 😊❤ Probably not tho

Thank you for having the love of crows or nature to STOP and experience this amazing moment in both of your lives. You are a special man and that crow knew it!

The calls of crows high up in the branches of trees in my neighborhood is like a soothing benediction. I wonder if anyone else noticed your young crow was almost exclusively interested and pecking at the orange parts of your scraper tool. Then he fetched a plum, which had almost the same color of orange flesh on the inside. I once rescued a fledgling crow that apparently had crashed against a wooden fence on its first flight out of the nest. I lifted it up out of the tall grass at the base of the fence and held it upright for a few minutes. I am quite sure that crow came back to visit occasionally for multiple years after that incident, even though I never fed it or held it again.

Just wow, the bird's curiosity is astounding!

Imagine being a gentle old folk so kind you even befriend the birds, that's the future I want to live

His intense infatuation with that scraper is mind boggling.