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How Crows Gave Earth’s Biggest City the Middle Finger

Casual Geographic | March 5, 2026



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Music used:
King Dedede Theme- Super Smash Bros.
Skye Cuillin- Kevin Macleod
New Donk City- Super Mario Odyssey
Huggy Bear Beat- Dan Goldberg
“Open Space” by FSM Team & escp –
https://www.free-stock-music.com/open-space.html
Fountain of Dreams- Super Smash Bros.
Documentary Background Music- @bdproductions

Clips Used
Tokyo hawk mercenary- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfvoCCj9nQ0&t=1s
Emu presses her human- https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZThCx8THf/
The crow mask experiment- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOkj7lJpeoc
Crow outsmarts two turkey vultures- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saRsq9pe9Hc
Crow instigates a cat fight- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt-pB1R64mI
The crow and his wolf- https://www.instagram.com/reels/CsvpJMhqcqB/
Crow tool use- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbSu2PXOTOc

Stock Footage from:
Gettys
Pond5
Shutterstock
iStock
Newsflare

Research Referenced
Tokyo crow wildlife management study
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301479723013907
Crows understand analogy- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982214015577

Written by Casual Geographic

Comments

This post currently has 37 comments.

  1. @antonzhdanov9653

    March 5, 2026 at 1:42 am

    Yeah, solid top 5 smartest animal having similar max lifespan to humans and having one of the most peculiar brain bcs their inteligence defies our knowledge about brain structure bcs despite being smart and having incredible memory they have very reptile-like smooth brain lacking structures we assosiate with one or another function in our brain.

  2. @JustAFox2183

    March 5, 2026 at 1:42 am

    Why not use airsoft guns? Japan is full of them. Hand one to each Tokyo citizen or foreigner and give them a book and a photo of crows and how to identify them. Or airguns with 22lr pellets could do the job too. Like how Jamaica is trying to eradicate Iguana and wild Chicken population

  3. @EvilExcalibur

    March 5, 2026 at 1:42 am

    Corvids are among my absolute favorite animals a lot of this is precisely why. They're fascinating creatures and there's just something lovely about an animal whose help can be more easily obtained via rapport than taming and/or force. Just wonderful.

  4. @bookwyrm247

    March 5, 2026 at 1:42 am

    I would love to see them do the analogical test without treats being involved, just to rule out that the birds somehow just know where the food is.

  5. @k96man

    March 5, 2026 at 1:42 am

    I remember having 2 Crow encounters relatively close to each other, I wasn't attacking or being attacked (they were a significant distance away) I only made eye contact with them when they were making some noise (I think they were trying to communicate with distant crows)
    The first one frantically flew away cawing repeatedly the second one simply shuffled along the branch it was on until it was out of sight behind the branches as if it received a polite noise complaint

    For years I haven't seen a crow since
    Years later it occurred to me we were cat distribution system hotspot at the time (we live in a rural area and cats help keep the skittering noises in the ceiling at bey) so maybe that was why they were apprehensive towards me acknowledging them

  6. @franzijurgens5470

    March 5, 2026 at 1:42 am

    In Germany, theres a phenomenon with farmers and crows/ravens offing their lambs while they are being birthed or shortly after. They pick at the eyes, tongue and crawling in to their butts and eating them from the inside. Crows/ Ravens are protected by German laws, so the farmers can’t do anything about it. You should look into it if you’re interested.

  7. @MagicXStallion

    March 5, 2026 at 1:42 am

    In the early 2000s when tv was dominant over todays internet this guy would had easily got a multi million contract signed for a 4 seasons on the animal channel

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