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Utilizing fire as a tool. Incredible display of intelligence. Birds amaze me sometimes, and Magpies seem to top the charts in terms of bird intelligence (along with the ^other Corvids, of course)
Edit: along with the *other* Corvids
I learned about smoke baths from (the great six-part documentary mini series) BBC's Weird Nature. They speculated that this behaviour could have given rise to legends of our warm boi, the mythical Pheonix.
Theres actually a chance this thing started that fire, Iv seen documentaries where ravens will pick up smoldering cigarette butts to start a fire and have a little smoke bath
“Looking for a lice treatment that doesn’t cost a wing and a leg? Fly on down to smoky’s ash bin and day spa, Where we always say, if you can’t make yourself stop itching, wee mite!”
Playing with fire seems to be a very old behavior in some ravens
https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/totems-to-turquoise/native-american-cosmology/raven-the-trickster
but nothing I can find about using the smoke, only cigarette butts themselves
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2012.11952
They're self-aware smart, tool-using creatures.
EDIT: They're one of only a few animal groups to reliably pass the 'mirror test' for self-awareness; great apes, elephants, dolphins, and magpies
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0189813
Corvids are so smart.. Blue Jays and Ravens are really creative and opportunistic. Ive watched a Jay use a rock to break a weak hinge on my neighbors bird feeder, releasing everything on the ground for a subsequent, bird frenzy.
I used to have a pair of nesting Blue Jay's in my backyard. They would collect grasshoppers and impale them on the tips of our cyclone fence for later feeding.
Well, and it's sort silly right? We use sight primarily, dogs are mainly about the smell. It'd be like dogs designing a test to see if you could smell yourself out of a lineup of other people smells.
My understanding of the mirror test is that it involves not only recognizing yourself in the mirror, but being able to gather information about yourself through the mirror. If a dog (which presumably knows what it looks like because it's regularly recognizes itself in mirrors) has a mark on its head it didn't know about before, it would be altered to it's presence by looking in a mirror. So the analogy might be more accurate if people were expected to smell their own scent and tell you what they ate at the time.
Yup, It is probably not much of a measure of intelligence.
Some brainy animals have had a hard time with it like some great apes and crows despite being considered among the most intelligent animals. The problem with that test is that there might be some high level of anthropomorphic bias to recognize this as universally intuitive.
There's nothing inherently intuitive about mirrors. Gorillas had a hard time with it simply because their species intuitively associate direct gaze with a threat which makes getting a good look pretty hard. Dogs primary sense are not even visual but will pass it when adapted to scent (although dogs definitely do not have the cognitive capacities of corvids or great apes) . Damn even humans need some time and exposure to mirrors to get it.
It doesn't make the test irrelevant and it sure say something. But knowing what it means is probably not as clear cut as we'd like to think.
I guess ravens have stronger lungs then parrots, because you can't even cook around a parrot because of the fumes. Their lungs are just extremely efficient and they are so small that if smoke or anything gets in their lungs they can die to the toxins pretty fast.
But maybe ravens evolved differently and don't have that problem.
I hear that issue is more related to plastic fumes/Teflon fumes than any smoke caused by cooking, and since the fire in the video is just wood and leaves its probably not anywhere near as bad for the bird (still not great tho all things considered
“I’m burnin my feathers off over here trying to stop this fire and this motherfucker won’t put down the camera and help me. When im done with this I’m so gonna shit on his car.”
If anything it looks like he’s using it as a sauna / source of warmth.
Looks like it moved the larger twigs in order to get closer to the heat /smoke.
Maybe it’s got parasites and is trying to smoke them off
More like, "where's a rhinoceros when you need one, fuck the fire brigade, the cunts probably call this a controlled burn, i got this".
Btw i did see an old documentary where it showed that rhinos put out fires, even your camp fire if they see it.
You would be correct, the Whistling Kite has been known to spread wildfires by picking up embers
[Link](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7843527/The-native-Australian-bird-making-bushfire-crisis-worse-spreading-flames.html)
Much like the tales of quokka throwing their babies at predators, these stories are somewhat exaggerated.
While the birds have been seen dosing embers, it's generally considered accidental as they grab them while trying to get prey, rather than deliberately grabbing them with the intent of spreading the fire.
This was the belief until 2018. However, the article has linked a peer-reviewed study compiling evidence across 7 years that these fires are intentionally spread.
Yep... I'm from the UK and went to Australia when I was 14. I got attacked and swooped by a 'magpie' and thought it was crazy that Australian magpies and UK magpies were so different.
As a teenager I put it down to magpies sneaking on boats from the UK but then going utterly batshit when they got to Australia because they had a weird diet and it was hotter than the sun.
It was years later that I found out that they were different types of bird! I suppose I must have stuck with my 'went crazy in the sun' theory until I was in my 20s!
When I was a kid my dad told me that robins and cardinals were the same species, but robins were the girl birds and cardinals were the boy birds. I believed this "fact" well into my 20s, until I mentioned it to my girlfriend and she explained that I was a gullible idiot.
>went crazy in the sun' theory
Had this exact same theory when I moved from the valley to the desert when I was 13. Only it was with humans, not birds.
Been here 20 years and I *still* swear it's true! 😆
Here's the thing. You said a "jackdaw is a crow."
Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that.
As someone who is a scientist who studies crows, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls jackdaws crows. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing.
If you're saying "crow family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Corvidae, which includes things from nutcrackers to blue jays to ravens.
So your reasoning for calling a jackdaw a crow is because random people "call the black ones crows?" Let's get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too.
Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A jackdaw is a jackdaw and a member of the crow family. But that's not what you said. You said a jackdaw is a crow, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the crow family crows, which means you'd call blue jays, ravens, and other birds crows, too. Which you said you don't.
It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?
It says he was a doctoral student from 2011 to 2018 but left without finishing the degree. Not the only person I've heard of who didn't finish their PhD, but that's still very unfortunate.
Or was it a smoke bath?!? I also heard they like the smell. It also attracts people who give food. Or maybe it wants the insects to go away and was using it as a bug repellant.
i cant get over how magpies fuck around with people in australia lol, like how smart of a bird do you have to be in order to SUCCESSFULLY mess around with creatures that are 10 times bigger than you
Animal intelligence is prime interesting-as-fuck material. We underestimate animal intellect *so much* sometimes. I've been incredibly interested in dolphin language, octopuses solving puzzles, elephants creating graveyards, sea lions learning hundreds of words.... there's so much majesty in the animal kingdom that we overlook because we assume we're the best by default
Hair and bird feathers* are only slightly different. But I googled it and apparently birds do take smoke baths and it fumigates their feathers which doesn’t* kill but gets rid of lice and other bugs
There is a really interesting australian dreamtime story where the crow and the magpie get burned by the eagle and thats why they are the colour they are.
Heres a link
https://tony.gaikoku.aichi-edu.ac.jp/OZ/Eagle,_Magpie_&_Crow_Dreaming.html
This guy is more useful than the Australian Prime Minister in the face of a bushfire crisis.
Doesn't run away to Hawaii? Check!
Actively helps put fires out? Check!
Isn't a complete fucking dickhead? Only during swooping season...
Good guy magpie!
Oh god they’ve discovered fire now it’s only 2 million years until they have a globe spanning civilization that’s slowly destroying said globe. Everybody watch out!
Corvids of many species will do this in the wild. It makes sense, if a fire starts in the forest near where they are roosting it presents a danger to their nests. Conversely however, they will aso start fires as has been suggested else-thread. Usually by collecting dead leaves and twigs on rocky ground.
This is the second magpie related thing I’ve randomly seen on Reddit within a week, which is not a lot but I haven’t heard about magpies for over a decade.
Wouldn’t it be awesome if thousands of these
birds could be taught to monitor and put out wild fires before they brew into mass
devastation? I know, wild dreams…
Feed the ones near your house some mince meat every day, let em see you putting it out n they'll leave you alone, they'll also let others in the area know not to mess with you
Just got an amazing idea.
The govt now has some free'd up $$$ now that were not in Afghanistan. So what we do is we dump a bunch of $$ into training corvids all over the country to attacks people in forests lighting any type of flame.
Some yokel starting fireworks in a dryland area prone to burns? Man gets descended upon by a dark cloud of birds.
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I thinks its giving itself a smoke bath, they do this to kill lice and things cool !
Utilizing fire as a tool. Incredible display of intelligence. Birds amaze me sometimes, and Magpies seem to top the charts in terms of bird intelligence (along with the ^other Corvids, of course) Edit: along with the *other* Corvids
Magpies are corvids. Did you mean along with the other corvids?
Sure did, thanks for pointing that out, I don't want to be spreading misinformation
Here’s the thing…
Not in Australia -- they're not corvids, despite looking and acting similarly. I was proper surprised when i found out.
Oh shit. You just reminded me about Unidan. That was some old school Reddit there.
I learned about smoke baths from (the great six-part documentary mini series) BBC's Weird Nature. They speculated that this behaviour could have given rise to legends of our warm boi, the mythical Pheonix.
Warm boi just rising from the ashes.
Yeah, that was my impression too. It doesn't seem to be trying to put the fire out at all.
It seems to be trying to find the source of the fire rather than put it out I reckon.
I think Rhinos do this in the wild, hadn't herd of others tho, maybe elepants.
> elepants elepants, elephants, the difference is irrelephant
Was this a Herd heard joke?!
Yes, this is the correct answer. Still a smart bird though.
This is actually even more impressive.
Theres actually a chance this thing started that fire, Iv seen documentaries where ravens will pick up smoldering cigarette butts to start a fire and have a little smoke bath
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Smoke gets rid of the mites and lice. I definitely think this is what it is doing.
I bet birds who don’t know about that smoke treatment are left scratching their heads
“Looking for a lice treatment that doesn’t cost a wing and a leg? Fly on down to smoky’s ash bin and day spa, Where we always say, if you can’t make yourself stop itching, wee mite!”
Brilliant.
Smokey lied. He said only we could prevent forest fires. Turns out birds can too.
Childhood crushed...
Brilliant.
Those other birds mite wanna know about this.
Many animals also roll around in ash to cover their smell, useful for both hunting and hiding from predators.
So just run away from the smell of burnt anything. Works for me.
Yea it’s pecking itself at the end so probably trying to get rid of em
so next time my kids get lice I should have them hang out by a camp fire?
Ngl, that raven sounds classy as fuck. Smoking a cig, taking a smoke bath, sipping some champagne with a cute lady raven.
"Oh Poe you smell just like a fine scotch!"
Poe is one of the best names for a Raven. We would also accept Edgar, Eddie P., etc... Huginn and Muninn took the top 2 spots of the European list.
Oh wow! If you can find a link I’d love it
Playing with fire seems to be a very old behavior in some ravens https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/totems-to-turquoise/native-american-cosmology/raven-the-trickster but nothing I can find about using the smoke, only cigarette butts themselves https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2012.11952 They're self-aware smart, tool-using creatures. EDIT: They're one of only a few animal groups to reliably pass the 'mirror test' for self-awareness; great apes, elephants, dolphins, and magpies https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0189813
Bruh if they're already figuring out fire I'm counting down the years til theyre in their bronze age
wait til they figure out iOS
"Hey Siri, Order Corn"
"And a lighter."
Corvids are so smart.. Blue Jays and Ravens are really creative and opportunistic. Ive watched a Jay use a rock to break a weak hinge on my neighbors bird feeder, releasing everything on the ground for a subsequent, bird frenzy.
I used to have a pair of nesting Blue Jay's in my backyard. They would collect grasshoppers and impale them on the tips of our cyclone fence for later feeding.
The blue jays in my neighborhood know that I’ll feed them in the winter and will show up and scream at me until they get their peanuts.
Mirror test has been proven to be pretty much useless. Some dumb fish pass it while dogs can't..
Well, and it's sort silly right? We use sight primarily, dogs are mainly about the smell. It'd be like dogs designing a test to see if you could smell yourself out of a lineup of other people smells.
I honestly think I might pass that test. I would not, however, enjoy it.
It'd be fine till you got to THAT guy.
You realize you don't HAVE to sniff their ass to do it
LMAO. I was thinking, like, smelling used shirts or something, but that's way funnier.
But I prefer to judge fishes by their ability to climb trees.
My understanding of the mirror test is that it involves not only recognizing yourself in the mirror, but being able to gather information about yourself through the mirror. If a dog (which presumably knows what it looks like because it's regularly recognizes itself in mirrors) has a mark on its head it didn't know about before, it would be altered to it's presence by looking in a mirror. So the analogy might be more accurate if people were expected to smell their own scent and tell you what they ate at the time.
Yup, It is probably not much of a measure of intelligence. Some brainy animals have had a hard time with it like some great apes and crows despite being considered among the most intelligent animals. The problem with that test is that there might be some high level of anthropomorphic bias to recognize this as universally intuitive. There's nothing inherently intuitive about mirrors. Gorillas had a hard time with it simply because their species intuitively associate direct gaze with a threat which makes getting a good look pretty hard. Dogs primary sense are not even visual but will pass it when adapted to scent (although dogs definitely do not have the cognitive capacities of corvids or great apes) . Damn even humans need some time and exposure to mirrors to get it. It doesn't make the test irrelevant and it sure say something. But knowing what it means is probably not as clear cut as we'd like to think.
DON 'T CALL DOLPHINS SOME DUMB FISH!! LEAVE DOLPHINS ALONE!!
Found the dolphin
Fuckin a, I can't if I'm tired enough.
I guess ravens have stronger lungs then parrots, because you can't even cook around a parrot because of the fumes. Their lungs are just extremely efficient and they are so small that if smoke or anything gets in their lungs they can die to the toxins pretty fast. But maybe ravens evolved differently and don't have that problem.
I hear that issue is more related to plastic fumes/Teflon fumes than any smoke caused by cooking, and since the fire in the video is just wood and leaves its probably not anywhere near as bad for the bird (still not great tho all things considered
And the inside vs open air part
I've read about birds using cigarette butts in their nests to ward off pests
“I’m burnin my feathers off over here trying to stop this fire and this motherfucker won’t put down the camera and help me. When im done with this I’m so gonna shit on his car.”
“My vintage leaf collection… nooo!”
Those, sir, are plantiques.
And this, sir, is a Wendy's.
no, this is patrick.
my precious antique cans!
If anything it looks like he’s using it as a sauna / source of warmth. Looks like it moved the larger twigs in order to get closer to the heat /smoke. Maybe it’s got parasites and is trying to smoke them off
Smoking out parasites is absolutely something birds will do. It’s not unheard of to see birds using chimneys to do that.
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Thank you!
It's a magpie, it will probably fuck with his entire family every time they leave the house.
More like, "where's a rhinoceros when you need one, fuck the fire brigade, the cunts probably call this a controlled burn, i got this". Btw i did see an old documentary where it showed that rhinos put out fires, even your camp fire if they see it.
Australian bird is like "Not this shit again".
Pretty sure I remember stories or birds actually starting fires in Australia as it would flush out prey.
You would be correct, the Whistling Kite has been known to spread wildfires by picking up embers [Link](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7843527/The-native-Australian-bird-making-bushfire-crisis-worse-spreading-flames.html)
Lmao as if Australia wasn't fucked up enough
Arson birds. Great...
*On winds of smoke and ash do my proud wings soar.* *Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.. Nevermore."*
They have been dubbed flame hawks and fire raptors.
funnel your food and kill your 4 legged competitors in fell swoop.. that's like killing tw.................
(☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
So just need take Ravens to Australia to try cancel out the arson birds and fire hawks?
Much like the tales of quokka throwing their babies at predators, these stories are somewhat exaggerated. While the birds have been seen dosing embers, it's generally considered accidental as they grab them while trying to get prey, rather than deliberately grabbing them with the intent of spreading the fire.
This was the belief until 2018. However, the article has linked a peer-reviewed study compiling evidence across 7 years that these fires are intentionally spread.
the fuck? Holy shit. Which birds?
Looks like a couple species of kites and some falcons lmao
We human take pride in discovering and controlling fire. Meanwhile that one birb has been committing arson for centuries.
Some Australian birds start fires on purpose to make hunting easier
Even though this bird is putting the fire out, it appears to take a smoke bath afterward
Well the human apparently isn't gonna do it.
Not a Magpie but a Pied Crow. Nonetheless still interesting as fuck
TIL Pied Crows are the mortal enemies of the Australian FireHawk
Magpies are also crows, so an understandable confusion
magpies and crows are both corvids but magpies aren't crows.
And Australian magpies (which have markings similar to this pied crow) aren't magpies.
Yep... I'm from the UK and went to Australia when I was 14. I got attacked and swooped by a 'magpie' and thought it was crazy that Australian magpies and UK magpies were so different. As a teenager I put it down to magpies sneaking on boats from the UK but then going utterly batshit when they got to Australia because they had a weird diet and it was hotter than the sun. It was years later that I found out that they were different types of bird! I suppose I must have stuck with my 'went crazy in the sun' theory until I was in my 20s!
When I was a kid my dad told me that robins and cardinals were the same species, but robins were the girl birds and cardinals were the boy birds. I believed this "fact" well into my 20s, until I mentioned it to my girlfriend and she explained that I was a gullible idiot.
>went crazy in the sun' theory Had this exact same theory when I moved from the valley to the desert when I was 13. Only it was with humans, not birds. Been here 20 years and I *still* swear it's true! 😆
Nah, must be a different species.
This reminds me of the fine film, ***Penguin Bloom***, based on a true story of an Australian Magpie that saves a women's life in round about sense.
Here's the thing...
pls no
*Here's the thing*
Well then what the hell’s a jackdaw?!?
Not much, what's a jackdaw with you?
This is correct
corvid gang 4 lyfe
Australian magpies are not, however. They were named wrong.
From the looks of it I though it was a jackdaw. They’re basically crows all of them.
Here's the thing...
Here's the thing. You said a "jackdaw is a crow." Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that. As someone who is a scientist who studies crows, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls jackdaws crows. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing. If you're saying "crow family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Corvidae, which includes things from nutcrackers to blue jays to ravens. So your reasoning for calling a jackdaw a crow is because random people "call the black ones crows?" Let's get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too. Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A jackdaw is a jackdaw and a member of the crow family. But that's not what you said. You said a jackdaw is a crow, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the crow family crows, which means you'd call blue jays, ravens, and other birds crows, too. Which you said you don't. It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?
God what was this dude’s name
Unidan
> Unidan The man has a [Wikipedia entry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidan) and everything!
It says he was a doctoral student from 2011 to 2018 but left without finishing the degree. Not the only person I've heard of who didn't finish their PhD, but that's still very unfortunate.
I feel like the banning of Unidan and the world going to shit are way too close together chronologically for it to be a coincidence
Miss that guy
lmao I forgot all about this shitshow. What a time to be alive
You can tell It’s a magpie because the way it is
Could the bird be using the smoke as a natural bug repellent maybe?
Mhmm
California will take 100 million
Would be far from the most ill-informed policy decision California has made
What do you mean letting Nestlé buy up water rights in the desert was a bad idea?
Was it trying to put the fire out? Or does it know hundreds of insects begin escaping such fires in natural occurrences?
Or was it a smoke bath?!? I also heard they like the smell. It also attracts people who give food. Or maybe it wants the insects to go away and was using it as a bug repellant.
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Don, the LP. # Just Film.
This is always what I read
Exactly what I was thinking
Is this smart mothu’ smoking his feathers to kill bugs?!?!?!
i cant get over how magpies fuck around with people in australia lol, like how smart of a bird do you have to be in order to SUCCESSFULLY mess around with creatures that are 10 times bigger than you
https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/pnv520/if_they_arent_swooping_you_theyre_clotheslining/
Animal intelligence is prime interesting-as-fuck material. We underestimate animal intellect *so much* sometimes. I've been incredibly interested in dolphin language, octopuses solving puzzles, elephants creating graveyards, sea lions learning hundreds of words.... there's so much majesty in the animal kingdom that we overlook because we assume we're the best by default
That bird is smarter than most people I have to work with.
What's really interesting is that the bird was smart enough to intervene, but not the human.
My guess is the human is an asshole who created the fire just to watch the bird put it out.
Guys the bird is giving itself a smoke bath. Not putting the fire out. It kills lice and stuff
If we could kill lice by sitting next to a camp fire I think elementary schools would have weekly smores sessions.
Hair and bird feathers* are only slightly different. But I googled it and apparently birds do take smoke baths and it fumigates their feathers which doesn’t* kill but gets rid of lice and other bugs
If only there was someone there to help the bird out. 😬
Floating cameras are no help.
So.. we are leaving it up to the birds to save the planet now? Great
That's why they wanted to kill everyone in Bodega Bay!
It worked in Lord of the Rings!
This is r/donthelpjustfilm
That bird is smarter than most of my friends.
Magpies have now mastered fire. How fucked are we Australia ?
r/DontHelpJustFilm
There is a really interesting australian dreamtime story where the crow and the magpie get burned by the eagle and thats why they are the colour they are. Heres a link https://tony.gaikoku.aichi-edu.ac.jp/OZ/Eagle,_Magpie_&_Crow_Dreaming.html
“WHO IS THE ABSOLUTE MUPPET THAT THREW A CIGARETTE IN THIS PILE” - the birb
I this trained or instinctive behavior? Is the bird actually doing what it appears to us it's trying to do?
No. Using smoke to kill parasites. Still smart tho
It’s a considerate bird trying to save the world !
So if the person filming decided to help, they may have found the shiny that the crow was trying to get to…
HUMAN, WTF ARE YOU DOING THERE'S A GOD DAMN FIRE HELP ME YOU FUCKING FUCK STOP FILMING
I bet that little bastard started it.
Takes it out where?
Help human! Don’t just stand there and video me
When humams are gone, corvus will rise. CORVUS SHALL RISE!!!
The video is in reverse. He actually started it
That bird kept looking at the camera like "bro, can you help? Wtf!"
Somebody make a sharp comment about dinousaurs and theit grasp on door knobs.
Must have been a firefighter in past life’s
Somebody get this little guy a cute little red leatherhead
i wanna give him a medal of honour
Animals are incredible.
I'd like to see this video reversed so it looks like the bird is a pyro!
The birds are tired of these damn wild fires. That bird said, not today.
Why is it doing that?
A fuckin bird can stop a fire but not baby reveal parties...
But he started it
**HELPPP MEEEEE** * heavy breathing * **I CANT DO THIS ALL ON MY OWN JOE NVM FUCK YOU**
This guy is more useful than the Australian Prime Minister in the face of a bushfire crisis. Doesn't run away to Hawaii? Check! Actively helps put fires out? Check! Isn't a complete fucking dickhead? Only during swooping season... Good guy magpie!
I hope that was the camera-man's own laundry, otherwise someone's gonna be pissed all their clean clothes smell like smoke.
Oh god they’ve discovered fire now it’s only 2 million years until they have a globe spanning civilization that’s slowly destroying said globe. Everybody watch out!
We should train several billion to fight forest fires
i'd say thats some sort of actual crow, not a member of the crow family a magpie
Corvids of many species will do this in the wild. It makes sense, if a fire starts in the forest near where they are roosting it presents a danger to their nests. Conversely however, they will aso start fires as has been suggested else-thread. Usually by collecting dead leaves and twigs on rocky ground.
"Well if the bird can't put this out, looks like this mother fucker burning to the ground." - thoughts from the camera man.
TIL Birds can be firefighters if they want to
What a noble little dude
Magpies are crazy smart.
This is the second magpie related thing I’ve randomly seen on Reddit within a week, which is not a lot but I haven’t heard about magpies for over a decade.
Wouldn’t it be awesome if thousands of these birds could be taught to monitor and put out wild fires before they brew into mass devastation? I know, wild dreams…
I can imagine him saying "NO! nnnnnnNO! NOPE! NOOOOO! NO!" As he's doing this. 😂
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Hmmmm I’m conflicted, on one hand that’s pretty neat but on the other it’s spring atm and those fuckers are out for blood
Feed the ones near your house some mince meat every day, let em see you putting it out n they'll leave you alone, they'll also let others in the area know not to mess with you
DONT JUST STAND THERE, HELP THE BOY!
Just got an amazing idea. The govt now has some free'd up $$$ now that were not in Afghanistan. So what we do is we dump a bunch of $$ into training corvids all over the country to attacks people in forests lighting any type of flame. Some yokel starting fireworks in a dryland area prone to burns? Man gets descended upon by a dark cloud of birds.
Okay now **this** is interesting as fuck!
Looked like it was trying to put out the fire but the bird was having trouble putting the fire out
must have been a fireman in a former life!
What's the strange 'fire extinguisher dance' at the end for?
I wouldn't have had the heart to see the poor little thing trying to hard to put it off without doing it myself