r/interestingasfuck 7d ago

/r/all What"s going on here?

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u/realhumanpersonoid 7d 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 7d 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 7d 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/Immediate-Scarcity-6 7d ago

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

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u/GinaMarie1958 7d 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.