The most amazing animal?

[We Never Know]

In our new house we get visited by a crow. One scary mother. The cats avoid it, probably with good reason.

Crows are very smart. Some claim way smarter than dogs.

"Crows are smarter than dogs. The average dog may possess an intelligence level similar to that of a two-year-old human, but crows are thought to be as intelligent (if not more so) as a seven-year-old human"

Which Is Smarter A Dog or A Crow? You’ll Be Surprised!

Wondering which is smarter a dog or a crow? We’ll put these two animals head to beak in an IQ vs. IQ stand off to determine which has greater smarts.

www.weknowbirds.com

 

[ChristineM]

Interesting that none named here made this list...

Top 10 World's Most Amazing Animals

Nature is versatile in its own way and has given us numerous kind of animals that are scattered all around the world. All these creatures are very well adapted to their environment. We have considered many aspects to list down these 10 amazing animals in the world, World’s Most Amazing Animals...

earthnworld.com

I did mention great apes, i guess chimpanzees count in that

 

[The Hammer]

In our new house we get visited by a crow. One scary mother. The cats avoid it, probably with good reason.

You have to watch them around your chickens up here. They'll **** em up for some eggs.

 

[Secret Chief]

You have to watch them around your chickens up here. They'll **** em up for some eggs.

We put bird food out. There could be several species there happily dining together. Then the crow turns up and everyone's like "No please, help yourself, I've had ample, I'm just leaving..."

 

[We Never Know]

We put bird food out. There could be several species there happily dining together. Then the crow turns up and everyone's like "No please, help yourself, I've had ample, I'm just leaving..."

I put corn out for squirrels and birds(both whole kernel and cracked). The crows and squirrels(red) will eat side by side out of the feeder. Its a wooden feeder 3 foot x 2 foot.

 

[Nimos]

Just as much weird as amazing

Leeches have 10 stomachs, 32 brains, 9 pairs of testicles and several hundred teeth.

10 stomachs, 32 brains: A visit to a leech farm

They were once used to treat everything from headaches to strangulation, and leeches are still a vital part of surgery

gulfnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org

Why would it need 9 pairs of testicles? (Show off!!)

 

[ChristineM]

Why would it need 9 pairs of testicles? (Show off!!)

Thats something of an odd number for nature.

 

[We Never Know]

Thats something of an odd number for nature.

What do you mean?

 

[ChristineM]

What do you mean?

I don't lnow of any animal with 9 of something, it usually 1,2 or multiples of 2

 

[The Hammer]

We put bird food out. There could be several species there happily dining together. Then the crow turns up and everyone's like "No please, help yourself, I've had ample, I'm just leaving..."

I put corn out for squirrels and birds(both whole kernel and cracked). The crows and squirrels(red) will eat side by side out of the feeder. Its a wooden feeder 3 foot x 2 foot.

I've seen squirrels, pigeons and crows sharing scraps.

 

[Nimos]

Thats something of an odd number for nature.

I honestly have no clue

 

[The Hammer]

I don't lnow of any animal with 9 of something, it usually 1,2 or multiples of 2

It's 9 pairs. So technically it's an even 18.

 

[ChristineM]

It's 9 pairs. So technically it's an even 18.

Good point, i missed that.

 

[libre]

Crows are very smart. Some claim way smarter than dogs.

"Crows are smarter than dogs. The average dog may possess an intelligence level similar to that of a two-year-old human, but crows are thought to be as intelligent (if not more so) as a seven-year-old human"

Which Is Smarter A Dog or A Crow? You’ll Be Surprised!

Wondering which is smarter a dog or a crow? We’ll put these two animals head to beak in an IQ vs. IQ stand off to determine which has greater smarts.

www.weknowbirds.com

I've read that Corvids typically are evaluated to have higher intelligence than Parrots.
I used to own a parrot, and found that quite surprising. Raven's oughta fire their marketing team.

 

[The Hammer]

This is a thing of death and beauty, behold the mantis shrimp.

Why the mantis shrimp is my new favorite animal - The Oatmeal

A comic about a glorious undersea creature.

theoatmeal.com

 

[Eddi]

This is definitely the most bizarre animal:

Portuguese man o' war - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Secret Chief]

I've heard said that within a few thousand years pigs ... will be entering their version of a stone age.

There's already some in the house of lords.

 

[ChristineM]

There's already some in the house of lords.

Yeak but it all fits, they are pre stone age

 

[wellwisher]

One of the most amazing animals is the hummingbird. It is the smallest of the bird species. However, this little bird can fly up to 60 mph. It is the smallest migratory bird. They can hover and are the only bird that can fly backwards. The coolest things is that some species of hummingbirds can change color. Their feathers are hollow and they can alter the diameter of the feathers and thereby alter the way sunlight refracts through their feathers for the appearance of a color change.

Hummingbirds have the highest mass-specific metabolic rate of any homeothermic animal.[5][6] To conserve energy when food is scarce and at night when not foraging, they can enter torpor, a state similar to hibernation, and slow their metabolic rate to 1/15 of its normal rate.[6][7] While most hummingbirds do not migrate, the rufous hummingbird has one of the longest migrations among birds, traveling twice per year between Alaska and Mexico, a distance of about 3,900 miles (6,300 km).

Where I used to live, a mated pair of hummingbirds would migrate to Mexico for the winter and return back to Coastal New Hampshire, where I live at that time, to have some chicks, then fly back in late summer. We would recognize each other, in early summer, signally the time to get the feeders out.

 

[exchemist]

I can't for the life of me remember what species the bird was but I remember visiting the Montreal biodome ~2013ish and there was this bird that was walking around undoing the shoe laces of tourists. Oftentimes, sneaking up on the same tourist 3 or 4 times.

I have never before and never since seen an animal so dedicated to inconveniencing humans, so it would have to be my top pick.

I did find a vlog of one of the birds in question, can anyone ID the species? :

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Looks like something between a guinea fowl and a moorhen. But I'm afraid I don't know what it is.