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What It Means When Crows Start Gathering In Your Yard
Crows often gather to roost, forage, or communicate.
If you’ve noticed crows gathering outside your window, you’re not alone. Some might take this as a negative sign, especially if they buy into superstitions surrounding crows and other black-colored ...
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Crows can mimic over 50 alarm calls, aiming them at whichever species has the most food
Fork-tailed drongos in South Africa’s Kalahari Desert can produce up to 51 distinct mimicked alarm calls and deploy them selectively against whichever neighboring species holds the most food.
Pecks after calls showed no delay at all. In other words, a vocal channel has a control layer that the beak-peck channel does not. Calling is cue-to-decision-to-action. Pecking is cue-to-action.
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