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helterskelter 7 hours ago

Crows in country will wait for a newborn deer to be left alone in a field by their mothers shortly after birth to peck the baby's eyes out so it dies and the crow can eat it later. My neighbor had told me about this happening, and maybe a month later I saw a fawn with its eyes pecked out shortly after it had died. The doe just sat at the edge of the field by it all night. So sad, but really smart of the crows.

Crows have also been known to alert predators like wolves to easy prey so they can pick the remains.

ifwinterco 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They also do this to lambs, they're smart but evil

kibwen an hour ago | parent [-]

> smart but evil

Sadly I have yet to see evidence that something can be smart without being evil.

dullcrisp 20 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Speak for yourself.

jamiek88 24 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

I glanced at this and moved on but then my brain did a kind of record scratch on this comment.

Great question does intelligence require selfishness / evil?

I’m gonna think about this a bit, but my knee jerk was to (violently) disagree with this but I don’t know why.

agumonkey 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

second degree planning involving third party means very high social modeling, fascinating