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Why you should never mess with a crow. In 2006, University of Washington researchers discovered that crows not only remember human faces for over 15 years, but they teach their offspring who to hate. This video explains the famous masked experiment and how crow intelligence makes them one of the smartest animals on earth.

Watch to learn how crows communicate danger and why crows hold grudges for generations.
Transcript
00:00Crows don't just remember you, they hold a grudge for generations.
00:06In 2006, scientists at the University of Washington proved it.
00:11They wore a creepy caveman mask while trapping and tagging crows.
00:15Nothing happened at first.
00:17Then, they wore the same mask around campus.
00:20The crows attacked.
00:22They cawed, they dive-bombed, they followed them.
00:26It wasn't just the crows they trapped.
00:28Other crows who had never even seen the trapping joined in, and it didn't stop after a week.
00:34Five years later, a third of all crows on campus still attacked the mask.
00:40Fifteen years later, they still remembered.
00:44Here's the wildest part.
00:46The crows taught their babies, and their babies taught their babies.
00:50Young crows who were never alive during the trapping knew exactly who to hate.
00:56They never forget a face.
00:58So if you see a crow, be nice to it.
01:00It will tell its entire family about you.

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