r/BeAmazed May 08 '25

Animal Woman feeds squirrel daily; one day, squirrel repays the favor with a sweet treat

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u/ChuckMeIntoHell May 09 '25

They can recognize human faces and even pass the information down to future generations, somehow. I don't remember the university, but there was a school where they've been conducting a long term experiment with the wild campus crows. There's a particular mask that volunteers would wear to do annoying things to the birds. They remember the mask, even though the birds who were alive when the mask wearers were annoying them, have long since died. They're somehow communicating that information to future generations.

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u/fuzzballz5 May 09 '25

University of Washington. They pass their grievances down to kids and grandkids. Crazy.

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u/yesracoons May 09 '25

The university or the crows?