Crows can evaluate visual info twice as fast as mammals
It is comforting to now they retain superior advantages over us humans in my book.
This post was made by a real human not a crow
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/crows-can-evaluate-visual-info-twice-as-fast-as-mammals/Open linkView original on lemmy.ca
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I liked them already before the advertising movie of Brandon Lee
So if I train one how to read, it would be able to read twice as fast as me? 🤔
Time for actual Avian Intelligence.
"Read this and give me a summary, and I'll give you this entire package of Austin peanutbutter crackers."
That would work except you have already been trained to read for them, you just don't realize it yet.
One of my most told animal stories is about a raven who learned to imitate the iOS message notification and used that to prank people. He'd wait in a tree, make the noise when they were close, and then swoop in laughing if they pulled their phone out, extra hard if they dropped it
Anyways that's one of the experiences that proved to me that intelligence or consciousness or w/e is not even close to a uniquely human trait. At this point it seems like an insanely arrogant and foolish assumption to ever have made, see also the impossibility of designing a trash can to keep out smart bears but not dumb humans
we had a mockingbird that one of our neighbors hated. the bird learned what his alarm sounded like. it'd go sit outside his window and scream at him as soon as the sun was up.
this was the same mockingbird that meowed at cats to lure them out of hiding then dive bomb them.
I wonder what he did lol
I for one welcome our new crow overlords ❤️
They're only that color because what they can see is dark AF.
I've wanted to make crow friends in my new city for the last five years. Always been afraid my dog would turn it into me having crow enemies.
Wife said I’m not allowed to feed the friendly neighborhood crows :(
Keep wildlife wild. While you may be kind and careful, not everyone is. Wildlife being comfortable approaching humans frequently ends in their demise.
Agreed in general crows in particular are super good at recognizing individuals and adjusting behaviour accordingly and I’m not allowed to feed them to befriend them lol 😝
Time for a new wife.
/s
The crows will provide one, when the time is right
They can't really carry a whole human, that's why they just bring bones. DIY wife I guess.
Anyone know how to make a summoning circle asking for a friend
You dropped an exclamation point
We should be training crows to shit on traffic cameras.
Sometimes I wonder why avids (corvids) let mammals (us) take over the world. What do they know that we don't.
It took an asteroid and several ice ages!
That working for a paycheck sucks, and we've less "taken over" the world than cut ourselves off from it
Ha! Yet another squirrel collaborator plotting with the corvids!
We know what you guys are up to!
This is just birds in general. Animal brains all process time and information differently.
Haha good 💨🖕⚡
Jk crows don't kill me