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| Question about Pets:Do ravens and crows make great and affectionate pets? |
Wanted to give you a little info about crows that I have learned since moving out here in the country in Washington state. We found a crow with a broken collarbone and tried to help it heal. We found it was illegal to keep it in captivity so we took it to a bird hospital. I learned a lot from them. For instance, the parents toss the babies out of the nest or they'd never leave it. The parents and every other adult in their group will feed that baby - not just the parents. The baby is fed for a year. They told me they would keep our bird until it was well and bring it back to rejoin it's group. There is a pecking order in the group. We watched one crew chew out another - the one "in trouble" because it did something wrong, rolled over on it's back with it's wings tucked in (kind of like a dog will do - submissive) while the other crow stood over it and "told it off". Once that other crow was finished, the bird on the ground flipped over and went about it's business. They bury food under tufts of grass and will let you know if there is a predator bird, cat, or whatever predator in the area. If it is a bird predator, they will dive bomb it and harass it until it goes away. At our place, the crows keep the hawks and eagles away from our chickens. If they go caw twice, it means there's food. Three times is an alert. I haven't figured out what 5 is yet. The leader will caw twice and then caw once to tell the others it's OK to go down and get food on the ground.
If you took a crow away from it's family, you can see they have a close bond.
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