Fred's Fun Fact: Ravens!

Find out what ravens do!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fred show is on Fred's Fun Fact Fredawn.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Learn so much? Did you know that ravens the birds?
Ravens know when someone is spying on them? What they know?
Who'll spying on them? Other ravens? Ah? And don't they
like hold grudges too? You? Yes? Wait, what's going on

(00:31):
with ravens? And I don't know how they did? Like
does someone speak to a raven? Like? How do we know? This?
For sure? But ravens are notoriously clever creatures, so much
that they're aware of when they're being watched. A twenty
sixteen study published in the journal Nature Communications, I Get
every one of them found that the super smart birds
display what's called theory of mind, which is the ability

(00:53):
to attribute mental states to others. This is a bird
That means that ravens can tell when someone or something
else can see them in the study. Research has put
the idea to the test and found that ravens acted
as if they knew they were being watched when there
was an open people available for other birds to spy
on them. So they got birds looking at their peoples now, Yeah,

(01:17):
so they took a couple of ravens, took them to steamworks. Yeah,
They said, who are looking at you before your beat
doesn't go in there? And if you know, you know,
And if you don't know, you don't need to know.
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