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Testing The World's Smartest Crow

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@Misty-k1o From YouTube ↗ 21 May 2026 346
'an iq too high?' ahh bird
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@Film_atic From YouTube ↗ 21 Mar 2026 2400
"An IQ Too High?"
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I’m not sure which is more incredible… The crow figuring every single thing out, or this dude setting up this whole thing. 🤯 Boggles my mind!
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i watched a crow in vancouver canada get on the transit and get off a certain spot. i asked around and people are like "yeah they do that" like its just another day... amazing video
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@aidenkraken72 From YouTube ↗ 21 Nov 2025 2100
the insult "bird brain" is now a compliment
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When Cheryl went out of her way to not only dip the nugget in the “water sauce” but then offer that nugget to Mark’s portrait I may or may not’ve shed a tear
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20:58 we're out here making peace with countries and failing, bro's successfully just creating peace with DA CROWS
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@pticatori From YouTube ↗ 21 Jul 2025 1700
I have a neighbour who is currently at war with local crows. Apparently, they drop heavy stones on her brand new Mercedes Benz, because she once used a stick to drive them away from her car. Crows remembered. And now they take their revenge. Every morning my neighbour fings a new dent on her car, and gets mad, while crows just chill in the trees nearby, watching her.
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@Fleegle25 From YouTube ↗ 21 Jul 2025 2400
the part where the crow offered the nug to your picture almost made me cry.. like that was so adorable
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@jbang917 From YouTube ↗ 21 Jul 2025 4600
The moment with the nugget offering to Mark was touching but the part where the crow made a hook was one of the most incredible things I’ve ever seen.
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@stevnated From YouTube ↗ 21 Jul 2025 4300
Wow, those wild crows trained Mark perfectly to leave them nuggets on the porch!
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@m3m9112 From YouTube ↗ 21 Jul 2025 20000
Dude a crow bending the tip of metal to pull out the bucket and then retrieving the same bucket to complete the next puzzle is just mind bending to me!!
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@corndogz911 From YouTube ↗ 21 Jul 2025 11000
At first when I saw the puzzles, I was thinking ''there's no way a crow can do all that''. To say my mind has been blown is a gigantic understatement
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@yingxuwang5843 From YouTube ↗ 21 Jul 2025 10000
The coolest part imo is when the crow tries to take shortcuts to solve the problems faster. Really shows they understand the end goal and aren't just repeating actions mindlessly.
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@kl6960 From YouTube ↗ 21 Jul 2025 22000
My dad ended up getting trained by the neighborhood crows to do tricks for them... One day he noticed the crows throwing walnuts to the ground, clearly trying to break them but without much success, so he picked up the walnuts, stomped on them until they broke, and put them on the sidewalk for the crows. He did that a few more times on separate occasions, and the next thing he knew, the crows were waiting for him just to drop walnuts straight under his feet when he was passing by. They'd call him to get his attention if he didn't notice them. They trained him very well indeed... :)
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@Jesus_Craig From YouTube ↗ 21 Jul 2025 11000
At 15:20 when she brings the wooden ball over to the scale, I think rather than thinking the ball is heavier than the coins, she almost immediately (and correctly, excepting a few puzzles) understands that things from the previous puzzles are important for the next. She might have thought the wooden ball was required to solve the scale.
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I wasn't actually surprised that she could complete any of the puzzles individually - they're all things crows are known to be able to do - but I was blown away by her ability to understand (immediately?) that she was completing a series of puzzles, that she should follow the lights, and that the puzzles were linked together.
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@ItsMerty From YouTube ↗ 21 Jul 2025 20000
The last part with the crow giving the nugget is just so wholesome.
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You mentioned the crows throwing nuts in front of cars to open them. I have seen a fun variation on this. When I was a royal guard, and walking guarding outside a particular castle, the crows had noticed that we walked very particular routes, so particular that you can actually see the routes as the stones are more worn there. We had steel under our boots to make sound, and they would throw their nuts on my route, using me as they do cars to open their nuts.
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@MarkRober From YouTube ↗ 21 Jul 2025 7300
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