| Re: Crow behaviour
Not sure as this counts as 'natural' behaviour, but hear goes:
About 15 years ago, when my niece was a baby, she was outside in the back garden asleep in her pram, when all of a sudden she let out such an awful screem for such a small baby. We all jumped up and looked out the window to see with horror a large Crow sat on the edge of the pram pecking at her toes. Luckily the pram hood was up to sheild her from the sun, otherwise it might have been her eyes! The Crow flew off suddenly with us banging on the window and rushing outside. Never the less baby's toes were bleeding a little and it took quite some time for my sister to calm her down.
It turned out this particular Crow had been hand reared by someone down the road, and was now allowed to come and go as it liked. So the Crow was used to/unafraid of people, and yet it was a wild creature - sometimes not the best of combinations.
The Crow continued to hang around the neighbourhood and generally harrass people, and got a reputation for attacking kids.
Still with the thought of what, and might have happened to my niece (I wasn't very pleased), I'm afraid I eventually tempted the Crow down with some bread, captured it and wrung it's neck. It ended up in my freezer as Ferret food.
In reality it was not the Crows fault - it probably saw the wriggling toes as prey so to speak, but the person who reared it and let it do as it liked, but I don't regret what I did in the least.  |