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**Come on out, we won’t even touch you**
Last Saturday, my friends and I decided to go camping in the woods. We set up our tents and made a campfire, but shortly into roasting marshmallows, we heard strange noises coming from the bushes. Naturally, we assumed it was a bear or some other terrifying creature, so we huddled together and started whispering about escape plans, while the sounds got closer. In a moment of bravery (or stupidity), we shouted, “Come on out, we won’t even touch you!”
Looking back, it’s hard to believe we thought a wild animal would hear our declaration and think, “Oh, well in that case, I’m coming out to be best friends!” Instead, it turned out to be a raccoon, who peeked out, looking just as confused as us, before promptly grabbing a marshmallow and scurrying back into the bushes. Meanwhile, we all stood there, half terrified, half laughing at our failed attempt at diplomacy with the wildlife. Now, that poor raccoon is probably telling all his friends about the weird humans who thought he wanted to join their marshmallow roast.
J
Dude will literally need to move to a different county.
S
Bold of you to assume their range is limited to merely a single county.
R
For real, apparently Ravens have territories from about 50-100 miles across, and they can cover that in a day. This motherfucker has to move time and climate zones both.
R
Not only that, they can communicate enough to tell other ravens that someone is an enemy do the territory’s overlapping can carry the message further. They can do that across generations as well, teaching their children who the enemy is…. Don’t fuck with corvidae.
E
There was a show that covered a study looking into this (I think it was crows, however). They wore a specific mask when catching and tagging the birds. The birds would give an alarm call when they saw someone in the mask. They also used a neutral mask where they didn’t interact with the birds, just walked by. Years later, that flock was still reacting the same to the masks and it had spread to flocks who never had the same interactions with the masks – it was pretty cool. I really liked how one of the birds from an outside flock hopped closer to get a better look at the mask, decided “Yep, that’s him!”, and started the alarm.
D
What was it called? This sounds fascinating
D
Nature: A Murder of Crows.
A
Pretty sure it was “The Crowening”. /s RIP Catherine O’Hara
B
This makes me wonder if there’s a way to make peace with them after something like this happens?
P
There is, it doesn’t take a long time either. I’ve read about this, but I don’t remember how
R
Feed us, and stop being a prick is usually the ticket. Food is the universal language.
A
Are you… a raven?!
J
no but someone around here is secretly an owl…
L
Who?
R
Whom?
F
[Who?](https://www.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/comments/ct9y67/someone_here_is_possessed_by_an_owl/)
A
👀 nooo.
N
/r/notOPbutThanks
B
Don’t quote them on it
M
Nevermore
B
I once opened the bag on a loaf of bread when I was driving home from the grocery store and threw the heel to a crow because I felt bad that me driving through his neighborhood made him fly out of the street and away from his meal. I apologize for not knowing at the time that bread isn’t good for Corvids. It was all I had.
B
If it’s “not good for corvids” in the same way as not good for most birds and dogs, I do believe one piece is fine. Just give something else next time.
P
Good thing I love and respect corvids.
P
Blood for the crow god.
J
Offerings
F
we demand the blood of your first born child… or peanuts. preferably with the shell still on. those are tasty AND fun.
I
Offering gifts, probably. They leave gifts for people they like
J
People have trained them to bring them money like change by feeding them. Also dont remember where I heard it or if its true. Supposedly one guy did a test to see if he could get some Ravens or crows dont remember which one to like him and another bunch to hate him. He feed and was nice to one bunch then threw rocks at another in another part of town. It ended when the birds went to war with each other
S
I remember this story. iirc He wasn’t deliberately mean to the other crows. He noticed on his lunch break that there were the ground crows and a separate group of crows that stayed on the powerlines further down the block. Every day at lunch he would feed the ground crows as he crossed to get food, the power line crows would watch from above with jealousy. One day, after weeks of feeding the ground crows exclusively, he took a different route and fed the powerline crows instead of the ground crows, and all of the ground crows went berserk. The consequence of betrayal had been far worse than he could have imagined. “Don’t feed the birds” became his mantra.
N
They are indeed capable of forgiveness. Their emotional range and reasoning is just a few of the reasons why the Corvidae family is my favorite when it comes to birds. Magpies are one of the few animals who passed the mirror test for example. They know when they are looking into a mirror meaning they are self conscious. They are like flying monkeys if you go by intelligence levels.
Z
Aww! They shouldn’t be self conscious! Corvids are all super pretty, smart and likable! They just need to work on thier self confidence!
T
There is, but it isn’t pretty: Lore tells us that the only offering that will appease our Raven overlords is sacrificing your first- born. But after that, they real chill
D
I always smile, wave, and tell ravens to have a great day when I see them. Can they understand me? Probably not. Can they absorb my vibes? Perhaps…
B
“Perhaps” is the right answer. Good enough to keep doing it.
A
Fr. My aunt was hated by the crows in her hometown area. Only now after 15 years of her living elsewhere have they forgotten who she was when she returns. All cause she liked to fuck with em when she was a kid.
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M
We all put on trump masks and throw rocks at ravens?
N
Seriously, for real, DO NOT FUCK WITH THEM. There’s plenty of reasons we got stories like those of people hanged in cages and then picked to death by Ravens and Crows.
B
That’s just corvids eating easily gotten food. They’re omnivores like us. Governments would put people in the cages as an excruciating execution knowing the birds would eat the condemned. It wasn’t just crows and ravens. Seagulls would eat carrion too.
S
I feed crows and was shocked when I traveled to a bachelorette party at a cabin ~100 miles away, did my call I do for my locals, and about 10 showed up in the middle of the woods.
T
“So, lets get the party started.” -crows, probably
P
Out of curiosity, what does one feed crows? Would a can of corn work? 👀
T
These are grackles and the post is some kind of Clickbait, obviously
C
I one time tossed an animal cracker to a grackle in a buccee’s parking lot and was suddenly swarmed by about this many grackles within 5-10 seconds. Grackles don’t play
H
I didn’t know either grackles nor buccee’s and thought you were just saying a random sentence to fit in.
F
Yeah these definitely aren’t ravens, ravens would be on the truck demanding the food they are owed with “grok grok”. Left my loader door open once the fucker opened my back pack and stole my grapes and peanut butter cookies.
B
I feed the crows at my house peanuts and cashews. Now when i come outside they bring their friends, but for fun. They even bring me shiny things they find and leave them where i put the nuts
J
Those birds will never forget, but they’re not [squirrels](https://youtu.be/U3066crrARQ?si=k3haCsTbZD3QCp1C)
S
I was walking my dogs and got chased down the street by a very angry squirrel. I’ve never been so terrified of something that weighed about 2 lbs.
O
They’ll follow him and tell his local ravens. This man needs a plane.
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