Better understand the difference between these two, because they know the difference between you and everyone else.
@jenniferrpovey …?
Actually, wild crows and ravens can recognize individual human faces. They have been known to remember and recognize researchers who have trapped them in the past (to tag them). The study that demonstrated this involved masks. Crows would both avoid people wearing the same mask as people who had previously trapped and banded them and scold them loudly.
AND, on top of that?
They only trapped and banded seven crows while using the masks.
47 crows recognized the masks.
So, they tell each other.
In another mask study, an innocent volunteer who had not even been told why he was wearing the mask was yelled at by an entire bunch of crows. Some researchers have had to use masks and costumes in order to have a chance of studying the birds after trapping and banding them. Other researchers have been followed by birds they’ve tossed food to in the past.
They really do know the difference.
That… wasn’t quite what I was asking, but it’s definitely better than what I was trying to ask.
Wow.
From the graphic at the top, I can see that crows are friendly flap flap friends (or pretty close for a corvid), and Ravens are beings whose name requires capitalisation if not epithetization.
