It may get aggressive.
Swift, whom studies bird behavior during the University of Washington, had formerly shown that crows conduct “funerals” by collecting round the corpses of these peers. Now a film team had come to capture this behavior.
Just as if on cue, another crow alighted for a nearby branch and gazed during the cadaver beneath it. As opposed to cawing from afar, it flew down and approached your body. Swift wasn’t expecting that, and she undoubtedly wasn’t anticipating the crow to droop its wings then, erect its end, and strut in how crows just do when they’re planning to mate. And as expected, the living bird mounted the dead one.
Crows, like the majority of wild wild birds, do not have penises. (more…)