Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 11:48:25 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Elliot Kirschbaum Subject: Re: Ravens vs. Crows In-Reply-To: <002401c2d8a9$0aaa97e0$7a9afea9@francishlkcx5s> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit on 2/20/03 1:26 AM, Frank Boyle at ravenfrank@EARTHLINK.NET wrote: > I have had them follow > me for long distances along ridgelines, squawking and chattering all the > while as if they were trying to tell me something There have been varying opinions about what Ravens are doing when they follow people like that. One school of thought is that they are trying to lead you to game animals so you can kill them and then they can feast on the remains. Another school of thought is that they are trying to lead animals of prey to you so they can feast on your remains. Elliot Kirschbaum Baltimore, MD USA mailto:ekirschb@bcpl.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================