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Re:Crows possess higher intelligence long thought a primaril... by yellowapple on Friday September 25, 2020 @08:04AM (#24588876)
Not only will those crows remember you, but so will other crows that have never seen you before. There's growing evidence that crows are capable of social learning, teaching things to other crows in the murder (including subsequent generations).

I strongly suspect that one of these days we're going to discover that crows and their relatives are not only capable of using language, but already are speaking languages that we just haven't deciphered yet.

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Re:Crows possess higher intelligence long thought a primaril... by orestarod on Friday September 25, 2020 @09:45PM (#24595775)
Instead of a full fledged language, they may have a more restricted language to communicate that "that" human is friendly - so the friendly crows you have never seen before may have seen you first, together with your buddy, and been informed of your friendliness. To recognise you as friend without ever meeting you before needs a lot more complex language.
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Re:Crows possess higher intelligence long thought a primaril... by saurik on Saturday September 26, 2020 @04:39AM (#24597312)
Yeah: and likely much more complex language than I as a human would even be capable of, unless the person I am supposed to be friends with has some very notable physical feature.
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