The Raven: Stealing, Spying and Bluffing | Extraordinary Animals | BBC Earth

The Raven: Stealing, Spying and Bluffing | Extraordinary Animals | BBC Earth
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A raven in Austria has astounded scientists with his amazing intelligence and creativity. Here, four year old Ellias demonstrates his cunning through an elaborate game of strategy to protect his food. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/BBCEarthSub

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47 Comments

  1. Birds are the closest living descendants of the dinosaurs even closer than the reptiles. Scientists know this from their bone structure and body systems. Most birds are smarter than many mammals relative to their size. And are great tool users and communicators.

  2. We Humans are really the stupid ones.
    We are naked apes, just arriving and messing things up.
    All nature is sharp as a needle and we go home from our office and watch tv all evening.
    I have learned something today, thank you very much.

  3. Dear America. Please elect a crow or raven for your next President. They’d be far more intelligent, strategic & sensible. And far less annoying, even when cawing loudly!

  4. What throat sack is he carrying stuff in? Crows have no Gular or throat sack. Once food has gone past the back of the tongue they have to shake their head vigorously to remove it or regurgitate if it's slipped down the esophagus. If you look into their beak there's no orifice leading to a throat sac nor any space for one?

  5. Smarter than most leftists… they will protect their stuff and plan for harder times. But they are also thieves like leftists trying to steal other peoples stuff….

  6. One mature raven always took the food I put out ONLY when I looked away! About a month ago he saved a female, pregnant rat after that was taken aloft by a falcon…and the raven made the raptor let go of the rat (raven`s buddy from the trashpickings). Raven then guarded the dazzled rat which fell through a big tree to the pavement from the many onlookers. But as I went there, raven greeted me, tickled the dazed rat back to a jump. The shopping bag I put down was promptly occupied by the hardly injured rat-so I took her to safety and left her with food. Ever since that raven only eats my food if I hand it to him(her?) and not even throwing it. We became friends as we saved the rat mom to be.

  7. God I love Corvids. I bet some of them are clever enough anticipate a fake stashing being done, and then just incognito keep following the stasher who then may let eventually let their guard down. I'm sure the birds also remember individual birds, their tendencies, socialization and reputations in this game.

  8. 1:49 “strategical” ? The BBC seem to be letting their standardosities slip. It’s only to be expectedentificated I supposify with the growing number of, post-modernisticacious millenialisingosities.

  9. I would not be shocked if it comes out that ravens has the same level of intelligence as humans. The only difference is our ability to grip and that we are a highly social animal

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