Gift-giving Crows
Wild crows are not known to create or display art. But they do occasionally leave behind objects like keys, lost earrings, bones, or rocks, for the people who feed them, a behavior that John Marzluff, a conservation ecologist and Swift’s colleague at the University of Washington, calls “gifting.” Many animals give gifts to members of their own species but crows and other corvids are the only ones known to give gifts to humans.
As John Marzluff explains in the video, crows will do this for people who feed them a lot and pay attention to them or even rescue them. Be sure to find us on FACEBOOK!