Nature

Crows remembered one 'dangerous' human face for years — and warned their friends

Researchers at the University of Washington trapped wild crows while wearing a distinctive mask, then walked around campus in that same mask without bothering the birds at all. Crows scolded the 'dangerous' mask on sight — even years later, and even when other crows who'd never been trapped joined in, suggesting the warning had spread socially from crow to crow rather than through personal experience alone.

John M. Marzluff, Jeff Walls, Heather N. Cornell, John C. Withey, David P. Craig, Lasting Recognition of Threatening People by Wild American Crows — Animal Behaviour, Vol. 79, 2010

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