When crows encounter dead crows, sometimes, they make alarm calls or gather other birds to the scene, holding a “funeral” for the dead. Other times, they have sex with the corpse.

Do animals mourn their dead? Examples of grief-like behavior abound in the animal world. Crows, which form lifelong pair bonds, flock to the bodies of their deceased, diving and swooping and ...

The team previously hypothesized that crows may surround their dead and make a ruckus as a way to warn others about potential dangers in the area. But in April 2015, they saw something that left ...

Crows react really strongly to one of their own being dead—including gathering around their deceased comrades. Some experts believe that these so-called crow funerals are efforts to learn ...

For centuries, people have noticed that crows, ravens, jays, and related birds pay attention to the bodies of their dead, by making alarm calls or recruiting other birds to the scene.

It’s Not Without Caws That Crows Desecrate Their Dead What dead crows can teach us about the connections between sex and aggression Katherine J. Wu - Correspondent July 20, 2018 ...

She said they likely to this to warn of potential danger. Swift believes that the crows mate with dead crows during the breeding season because their hormone levels are so high. (Kaeli Swift) ...

According to new research led by Kaeli Swift, there’s a reason crows gather like they do near their fallen comrades. Swift, a Ph.D. student in biology at the University of Washington, conducted ...

Like most birds, crows do not have penises and do not perform penetrative sex. What they do instead is rub their cloacas — which are like vents under their tails — together.

SEATTLE - For nearly every step of his almost 12-mile walk, Darryl Dyer has company. Flocks of crows follow him, signaling each other, because they all know that he's the guy with the peanuts. "The… ...