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Crowboarding

POSTED BY: PIRATENEWS
UPDATED: Friday, January 27, 2012 07:38
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Friday, January 20, 2012 5:02 PM

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-buzz/crow-caught-video-snowboardi
ng-down-roof-203827721.html

http://www.cracked.com/article_19042_6-terrifying-ways-crows-are-way-s
marter-than-you-think.html

We had a neighborhood cat that would jump out a 2nd story window, run around the house then do it again, and again. His name was Marcus.

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Saturday, January 21, 2012 6:27 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

" Clever girl "

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Saturday, January 21, 2012 7:09 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Yup, no surprise there. Crows and ravens have long been shown to be sharp as a tack. Smart animals learn how to get food easily, so they've got lots of time to play. Look at dolphins, and river otters. Never doubt how smart crows and ravens are...I know, we had a rehab raven for 14 years; sometimes she was too smart for her own good!

Neat video, thanx. And the articles linked talk about how sharp they are; right on.

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Crows are often thought to be one of the smartest species of birds. Researchers have seen them using a variety of tools to attract and process food including hooded crows using bread crumbs for bait-fishing and New Caledonian crows dropping nuts onto streets and waiting for cars to crush them open.

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Sunday, January 22, 2012 7:16 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht

I like ravens a lot, but I don't prefer crows.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Monday, January 23, 2012 7:21 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Riona: Me too. Not sure why...

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Monday, January 23, 2012 2:41 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht

Where I live crows are of the city and ravens are of the wooded places. We have lots of them where I camp. I don't see ravens in town digging through the trash and sitting on phone wires like I do crows. Plus ravens have lots of historical and mythological things about them that are very interesting. My dad and I chose ravens as our special creature too, like a totum but not exactly. So I really like them. Plus right after we chose that my little brother came along and his mom named him Raven, without any imput from us (he's adopted, we know her and knew her when he was born, but she chose his name for him. He didn't come to live with me until a few years later).

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Monday, January 23, 2012 5:30 PM

FREMDFIRMA

Because Ravens are hillbillies and Crows are gangbangers.

Still a pack of goons mentality, just more a matter of scale and intensity, is all.

Me, I'm fond of the Crows, they tend to congregate near me anyways, leading to a certain comparison I've never much liked...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Morr%C3%ADgan

-F

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Tuesday, January 24, 2012 8:03 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Thank you, Riona, that might well explain my prejudice too. We've got crows ALL OVER the place, but yes, I only see Ravens in the countryside, so maybe I don't get as bad an impression of them! We've got a tree down at the end of the block which everyone calls the "Crow Tree". They mass there, hang out there, nest there, and are ALWAYS around...to the point where the people across the street from them put up a sign reading: "PLEASE don't feed the crows!" I feel sorry for them!

And yes, Frem, both are rasty creatures, and their smarts get them into all kinds of shit. I happen to like that about them. Having known one up close and personal, I know just HOW MUCH shit they will get into, given the chance, and she had us laughing many times. Besides, ALL birds are rasty by nature (maybe they DID descend from raptors...), aren't they?

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Thursday, January 26, 2012 6:03 PM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!

How do crows fly with such gigantic balls?

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Thursday, January 26, 2012 6:22 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

At first, I thought he just wanted to two pusssies to shut the hell up, but I really think he was trying to get them pissed, and go at it. He just wanted a front row seat!

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Friday, January 27, 2012 7:38 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Funnier than hell. Naw, he was taking advantage of them being focused on one another to get a few fun "tail nips" in. Not at all surprising. Typical smart, rasty crow. The title is wrong, he was playing with them (you can hear the fight started before we see him join in).

In afghanistan, we lived behind 10-foot compound walls. Our dog was fed outside, and there were a pair of ravens who worked in tandem...one would fly down while Tammy was eating and get right next to her bowl. She take off after it and the raven would fly just ahead of her to the top of the compound wall, where he'd sit and tell her off, while the other raven would fly down and grab as much of her food as possible in his craw and fly off. She'd go back to eating, and they'd do it again, over and over. For a super-bright dog (trust me, she was), she never seemed to catch on. Crows and ravens are cool.

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