• Brem@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Crows are cool. I’ve made friends with a couple over the years. They have a lot more time to use their brains freely. It’s a nice way to be.

    They need a reward system though, if ya want em to keep eating the toads. Easy food, but picking around the glands can’t be easy and I’m sure it doesn’t taste better than boiled peanuts or whatever they do in the nest.

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      5 hours ago

      Yeah, they’re not making much of a dent in the toad population, probably don’t taste good, but I find it fascinating that they have the level of culture where their groups get together and swap notes like this. Perhaps we should do that thing where they get a peanut for dropping off trash (was it cigarette butts, eww) but with toads.

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        5 hours ago

        Hold up homie, Carrier Crows. I’ll find some and ask what they want to deliver a message to you, and you do the same. They can meet up half way and split the pay or however they prefer to do it. I’d be happy to take a loss for it. Birds are just new dinosaurs.

        Edit: I know about the cigarette butt thing, but I think that story was blown a bit out of proportion. The Internet has a tendency to focus on a few things and make the most out of it. Plus, even if that works, we shouldn’t be getting birds addicted to nicotine. I’m sure it’s in the filter.

        2nd edit: if you make sure to keep 'em in check, you can have our surplus of bashing dickheads. There’s lots of angry people here who would love to use their aggression on animals. They do it regardless, let’s aim them towards critically invasive species. (PS, I know about the roundups. We have a similar thing in the US, but instead of helping, ours hurts. It’s in texas and they call it “rattlesnake roundup”. Bunch of dumbfucks that don’t understand what a keystone species is.

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          4 hours ago

          Heh, we have plenty of dickheads here, thanks anyway, and varying forms of toad ‘sport’ (golf, cricket etc.) Mild fun, but, again, little tangible effect on the toad scourge, shit’s invasive.

          If I may, perhaps you could point your dickheads at the orange idiot, likely more productive. Sorry about the snakes, rule here is leave 'em alone and they will too (tiapan is so much more venomous).