why a crow touched by human being is killed.?

Question

if a crow is touched by human being other crows attack it and hit it till it dies,the crow is not accepted back in the community.other birds like parrot or pigeons dont do this.i dont understand the reason of the brutal killing of crow touched by human being by its community.i once saw a small crow fell from the nest children tryed to feed it and the next movement it was attacked by the groups of crow till it was dead.somebody please give proper reason.

Answer 1

I was a wildlife rehabilitator for many years. I took care of MANY crows and other black birds. They never were attacked when released back into the wild. There may have been other reasons that the baby bird was attacked, but it wasn't because children were touching it.

It may have been injured by the fall or sick or a cuckoo's chick. I have seen them kill cuckoo chicks. They are the only bird species smart enough to know the difference.

Answer 2

Most birds don't have a sense of smell (crows and ravens being one of them) The only birds that have a great sense of smell are Vultures. With that said If a crow is touched by a human, other crows are not going to know (this goes for most backyard birds). What I see most is...Someone finds a young crow on the ground, they think that it needs help so they take it away (in essence they Kidnap it from the parents) when they feel that it needs to go back, usually a few days or weeks later, it is to late the damage is done. When you take a baby for a few days or weeks the parents think of it as dead, and move on to concentrate on rearing the other 2-4 babies. When you put it back after having it for so long the parents (and others in the flock) will think that it is an intruder. Another situation is people will keep the baby until it is flying and then they will release it. The problem with this is baby crows (along with all wild birds) will begin to fly before they ever start to eat on their own. So if it is put back with the parents as soon as it begins to fly it will have no way of being fed or feeding itself. Wild birds leave the nest and go to the ground for a reason, they have to spend time on the ground to build muscle in their wings and beast area. Depending on the species they can spend up to 2 weeks on the ground with their parents feeding them until they are able to fly.

Answer 3

I don t know why - but I can tell you from personal experience that the crow who touches human is killed immediately by other crows. I stumbled upon this site in search of an answer but none to be found here.
I was a 7 year old when I was playing in my balcony and eating a biscuit; a crow wanted to take it from me but instead touched my head in the attempt, the next moment there was such an amazing chaos and tens of crows attacking that crow! it was dead in no time...today, 30 years later I still remember very clearly. I have seen several times many crows attacking one of them. Also, strange enough when a human attacks a crow, it seems acceptable in their community to attack that human and then the logic of human touch and punishment breaks down.... someone killed a crow with a air gun and that teenager could not come out of his house for months - the moment he did, tens of crows would attack him!

Answer 4

It is a myth and wrong to say that crows kill their kin if touched by humans. Crows have been associated with humans since ages. They are scavengers and know how to survive with humans around. Though thy are wild, but they can be tamed to some extent with patience. I have few crows eating out of my hands daily. They spot me the moemnt I come on the terrace. They come at a particular time only. Till now none has attacked the ones that I feed. Since they are scavengers, that is why they are considered untouchable and perhaps that is why the myths about them!

Answer 5

hey do u remember the story where a crow gets a ring and he wears it on his neck . the other crows do not recognise them and attack him the ring breaks during the attack and the crow starts being recognised again. this is a panchtantra story and these stories were written aftre a lot of observation. so basically it must be true that crows recognise human smell and do not recognise the crow. same thing happens when u touch any other birds eggs

Answer 6

All the people answering here Think they are very intelligent .. Just bcoz they have not seen it they will not believe it !! A servant of mine caught a baby crow and took it to our home ... We shouted at him.. But caressed the crow anyway .. Then told the servant to let it fly away.. It was a young crow who just learnt how to fly .. As we let it free... It tried flying outside our window immediately sssooo many crows came and killed it right away !Plz don't be stupid enuf now to justify it ! Just because u have not witnessed it or crows in Ur area are civilized ones !!! And don't tell that was a cuckoo that wud be the stupidest thing ever saw it with my own eyes!

Answer 7

Somewhere in the past people began assigning names to groups of animals and birds , such as a "flock" of geese, a "parliament" of owls, a "pride" of lions and a "pod" of whales, but a group of crows is called a "murder".

I do not know why the name was given to them, but your question reminded me of it.


Perhaps the following, which I excerpted from a Cornell University study, will explain:


Many people seem to expect birds to be able to fly on their own when they leave the nest. Most cannot, but rather leave the nest a week to 10 days before they can fly. People who see them assume that they have fallen from their nest. Here is the reality: birds just don't fall from their nests! The parents usually build nice sturdy nests. Only incredibly infrequently will the nest be disturbed enough that a nestling will fall out. In some species, however, and crows are one of these species, nestling birds may be THROWN out of the nest. That is, it is in the best interests of the parent birds to get rid of some of their own offspring, and they accomplish this by tossing a couple of kids. (Life is not pretty!) But, such things happen only relatively infrequently! (In these cases putting the young back in the nest will probably result in them getting tossed again. Either that, or that one will drag the rest of the nest into starvation with it.)

Answer 8

It is tough to survive in the animal world and only the fittest survive. Animals especially intelligent ones like crows instinctively identify weak traits in young ones. Though it may sound cruel to humans, they destroy the ones that is incapable of living. That must be their way of filtering out weak genes.

I had an experience. I saved a baby myna(indian bird) when it was being attacked by other mynas. As it grew older it turned out to be inbalanced and stupid. I never kept it caged. Every time it went outdoors it was attacked by other mynas. Then it dissappeared one day.

Answer 9

This is not true...birds have a very poor sense of smell and are not even aware when an egg or baby crow is touched in the nest. I have NEVER heard of this...where exactly are you getting your information from.

Answer 10

the crows think that the touched crow has been corrupted ,maybe by religion or politics ,who knows .

if you touch birds eggs they already get pushed out of the nest ,
guess this is the follow up of the concept

i had a crow as a kid that sat on my head ,but never experienced other angry crows nearby

but crows are very clannish i have seen them group up and anoy eagles that were (hunting )scanning the forrest edge, the crows went ahead and warned everybody
also seen them flush out a coyote hiding in the bushes

many animals will reject young that have been touched by other species

maybe it is a build in quarantine factor to stop deseases from spreading although a bit fascist to say the least.