• fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.comEnglish
    1528·
    21 days ago

    Oh man, someone start spreading fire ants as a cure for something. This administration would be all over it.

      • Dasus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        101·
        21 days ago

        Uhm, no, not the same thing.

        That’s like saying “pasta” is the same as “spaghetti”. Spaghetti is pasta, like jackdaw is a crow, but “crow” is contextual. Where I live, it means the European hooded crow, but in Australia, it wouldn’t. Just like pasta can refer to spaghetti or macaroni.

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crow

        A crow is a bird of the genus Corvus, or more broadly, a synonym for all of Corvus.

          • Dasus@lemmy.worldEnglish
            12·
            20 days ago

            Oh well. Read about it now, and realised you’re right, I wasn’t aware, but now that I recall, people have memed about him a lot to me because I’m a bit of a crow fanatic as well.

            I’ve friend crows. They follow me around and I give them meatballs when I visit the store.

            I call this one Muninn Blackbreast.

              • Dasus@lemmy.worldEnglish
                3·
                20 days ago

                It’d be sweeter if I had a house and could arrange a spot to do it reliably. Now its just me relying on them spotting me. But it’s kinda fun, as sometimes when I’m scooting/cycling to the store, Muninn will glide next to me a bit to remind me he’s there and to get him something as well.

                I don’t always buy them meatballs and there’s been plenty of bans for bird feeding.

                In my last apartment I accidentally taught a squirrel to plunder aparments, because I fed the crows from my windowsill.

                Then I got fed up with finding squirrel poop in my kitchen so one time I caught him in a large see through moving box and put him in time out for a few hours. (I made sure there were s few twigs, water and some food in the box.) I don’t know whether he leaned his lesson, but the crows certainly learned and followed me despite the move. I only moved like 150 meters as the crow flies, hehe. So it was easy of them to still follow me while not needing to change where they nested.

                I’m sort of coloured like a big black crow often, as well. Gray and black.

                But sometimes it’s kinda hard to know whether I’m imagining them having followed me and just looking at some random crows. As sometimes they follow me even when I take the bus.

                But I go to supermarkets which are like 2-4km again as the crow flies (pun’s getting old tho). So it’s reasonable they do follow me. Especially in winter when it’s hard for them to find food, not as much in the summer.

                Also magpies and a blackbird, I think but less so. The magpies don’t follow as far, but there’s more of them and they’re more nimble, so if I feed the crows near my house, the magpies might disturb them. Which is why I feel like they follow me to the stores a bit further away.

                Idk it’s not too empirical but I’m definitely karmically positive when it comes to crows.

                My ultimate fantasy would be to train them well enough to perch on the sleeves. That would be rad, but I don’t believe it’s realistic.

                Hugin and Munin Fly every day Over all the world; I worry for Hugin That he might not return, But I worry more for Munin

                — From Grímnismál

                • LePoisson@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  2·
                  20 days ago

                  That’s really cool, you have your own little army of familiars following you around. Sounds like you need to be careful with the possible feeding bans. Hopefully you don’t catch any trouble.

                  All I’ve heard about magpies is they’re assholes though!

                • TheDoozer@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  20 days ago

                  It’d be sweeter if I had a house and could arrange a spot to do it reliably.

                  My wife and I are buying a house, and one of the main things she’s planning is The Unkindness Sanctuary, since there are a ton of ravens in our area.

                  She also named the raven that regularly came to our front door “Hugin,” so I dig your crow bros name.