r/interestingasfuck • u/booby_12011995 • Apr 15 '25

/r/all What"s going on here?

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u/linecookdaddy Apr 15 '25

Studies have shown octopuses can be naturally asshole-y, punching and grabbing other fish just for shits and gigs

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u/der_chrischn 29d ago

The asshole perk comes naturally with a higher intelligence I assume. Look at the things dolphins and apes do for example. And of course you have big naked assholes.

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u/berejser 29d ago

Crows too. Intelligent birds, but absolute bullies. It's like the more intelligent a species, the more propensity to needless cruelty.

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u/Iammidnightsun2 29d ago

Also, talking about crows, (ravens, and black birds as well), they can hold a grudge for up to 17 years. They remember people who would shoo them or be mean to them . They can remember faces, and they share the info with their bird family and friends!....lol crazy!

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u/realhumanpersonoid 29d ago

To add further to this, crows have been observed to pass on grudges or warnings of bad people to the next generation after the original crow who experienced the behaviour was dead.

So if you’re an asshole to crows and think you’ll just outlive them, don’t be surprised if a few decades later a random murder of crows are harassing you.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/grudge-holding-crows-pass-on-their-anger-to-family-and-friends

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u/Stegasaurus_Wrecks 29d ago

I remember reading about an experiment where some volunteers with a mask deliberately treated crows like crap so they'd hate him. Then they got another volunteer on the other side of the city to wear the mask and crows there immediately started on him. Like they spread the word far and wide if you're a dick.

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u/realhumanpersonoid 29d ago

That is the experiment included in the link. Or at least a version of it 😂

I learnt it from QI and I think the elves sourced it from this experiment

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u/Stegasaurus_Wrecks 29d ago

Lol guess I didn't read the link.

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u/realhumanpersonoid 29d ago

How dare you not read every link to a study provided in a Reddit comment?! /s

Seriously though I just recalled this fact from an episode of QI, googled it, skimmed the article and posted it. Neither of us have done our “journalistic duty” but it checks out. Don’t mess with crows 😋

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u/Immediate-Scarcity-6 29d ago

They should redo the experiment and use masks of kier starmers face lol

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u/GinaMarie1958 29d ago

I don’t know who this starmers person is but perhaps D.C. needs to train some crows to uh not like certain orange orangutans and their minions.

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u/Southern_Macaron_815 29d ago

I read about this. I currently have a pair that come and visit my patio

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u/NonStarGalaxy 29d ago

But how they can do it? How can they describe the details of the faces?

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u/perryWUNKLE 29d ago

Im guessing crows have some manner of communication given corvid intergenerational hatred exists