Can crows recognize individual cats? (1 Viewer)

jurek said:

I live in a neighborhood which has lots of cats roaming about. I also routinely pay attention to alarm calls of crows to see a raptor or something interesting. In recent days, I heard several times that local Crows make enormous noise, with their intense grating calls. It turned that it is always the same Siamese cat, out of many cats which are around. It would be useful for Crows to recognize individual cats, because they vary from keen hunters to couch potatoes which practically lack hunting instinct.

Apparently Crows recognize individual people, but do their recognize individual cats? Anybody noticed the same?

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Jon Turner said:

Some banders (ringers on this side of the pond) were banding on the campus of one of the American Universities. I don't remember the precise details but they wore Ronald Reagan masks which perturbed the local Crow population, bringing on aggressive behaviour from the Crows. I forget the timescale but some 10 years later, they returned with the Reagan masks and the Crows went berserk!

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Jeff51 said:

According to Sibley's wonderful book, What It's like to be a Bird, "Crows are able to recognize us by our faces, and they associate each person with good or bad experiences." so meows sense to me that crows would recognize individual cats, esp siamese cats. they're unforgetable.

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