Badgers actually team up with coyotes and foxes, not wolves, but whatever, close enough.

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      Give them ten thousand more years and they’ll have evolved snail-like prehensile eye-stalks. Then who’ll be laughing?

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    Crow bro for sure. Which I think are ravens and not crows, because ravens are also called ‘wolf birds’, but crow bro is more fun to say

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      Here’s the thing. You said a “jackdaw is a crow.”

      Is it in the same family? Yes. No one’s arguing that.

      As someone who is a scientist who studies crows, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls jackdaws crows. If you want to be “specific” like you said, then you shouldn’t either. They’re not the same thing.

      If you’re saying “crow family” you’re referring to the taxonomic grouping of Corvidae, which includes things from nutcrackers to blue jays to ravens.

      So your reasoning for calling a jackdaw a crow is because random people “call the black ones crows?” Let’s get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too. […]