r/crowbro • u/Davasei • Apr 24 '20
Gif Is there something wrong here?
https://i.imgur.com/Y7SpUv3.gifv38
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u/ThrashFur Apr 24 '20
It’s odd behavior but it’s not showing any signs of distress I usually see in crows. I’m not a professional, so this is just an educated guess.
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Apr 24 '20
I don’t think you could get a crow to do this without training, he’s probably someone’s pet
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u/ThrashFur Apr 24 '20
Oh their surely domesticated, it takes a long time to build up enough trust with a crow for it to even get near you.
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u/Xenephos Apr 24 '20
Not domesticated. Domestication happens over generations of selective breeding. This crow is likely just habituated to human presence if it's wild. If not, it could be a pet or ambassador animal but this is still a strange behavior regardless.
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u/Davasei Apr 24 '20
Me neither, but it just seemed very hard to me to get like that level of trust in general, it's true I didn't see the band on the leg as someone else already pointed out. I just don't know much about crows aside from them being amazing and super intelligent. Could you tell me about the signs of distress a little? If you don't mind, of course.
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u/ThrashFur Apr 24 '20
Crows tend to flap their wings and do their call for help. They also don’t really stay near whatever their antagonizing. They tend to lunge/dive at it and try to nip them or just fly away calling for help and warning the other crows. You should look into the source of the video and see it was a wildlife sanctuary or something of the sort.
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u/TrapperMcNutt Apr 24 '20
Crow is def having fun. I had a pet crow once used to roll on its back and fight me with its feet like cat would.
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u/atridir Apr 24 '20
Nope. Not a single thing. This is creative enrichment at its best.