“That’s probably for the best, because crow communities can hold a grudge for generations. A team of researchers at the University of Washington ran an experiment where they captured American Crows in nets while wearing a caveman mask, then released them back onto campus. When the researchers later walked across campus wearing the same mask, the crows scolded and dive-bombed them. More than 10 years after capturing just seven crows, more than half of the crows on campus still raised the alarm at the sight of a caveman mask.“

From link in OP, damn.

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Posted by highup7

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Posted on 2/14/24 at 6:01 pm to Mushroom1968

Years ago, did they have a hardware store on Government Street that had a crow in a cage and the crow talked
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Posted by LegendInMyMind

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Posted on 2/14/24 at 6:28 pm to Mushroom1968

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“That’s probably for the best, because crow communities can hold a grudge for generations. A team of researchers at the University of Washington ran an experiment where they captured American Crows in nets while wearing a caveman mask, then released them back onto campus. When the researchers later walked across campus wearing the same mask, the crows scolded and dive-bombed them. More than 10 years after capturing just seven crows, more than half of the crows on campus still raised the alarm at the sight of a caveman mask.“

From link in OP, damn.

There's a crow documentary on YouTube that covers this experiment. The researchers who conducted were interviewed. Pretty cool documentary. I'll see if I can find it.

I'm pretty sure it is this one:
Crows: Smarter than you Think

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