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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ChrisKten" data-source="post: 1288652" data-attributes="member: 69033">I thought I'd share an example of how clever the Crow family are.As I've said before, peanuts in shells are taken by Crows, Jays, Magpies, and Squirrels. All of the them have their little habits, like how many nuts they take, where they take them, how many they put in their crop(obviously not the Squirrels<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />).Anyway, one of the Crows always takes 2 nuts, flies up to the fence, then onto a wall to make sure he won't drop them, and then flies off.But at least twice he has behaved differently. He flies up to the fence, but then a Jay lands on the fence, so the Crow flies back down, jams an extra nut in his beak, then flies off. He knows the Jay will also take nuts, so takes an extra one, just in case there are none left.Quite smart if you think about it.</blockquote>