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I imagine these rescued animals go back to their own and say, “Bro, you’re not gonna believe this!”

I rescued a mocking bird after a strong storm. Once it was healed, it would return to visit me in my front yard and even brought on of its babies 😊 so sweet.

I have helped many animals, both domestic pets, and wild animals, and I have seen evidence of both. Once, on my way to an early class in high school (it wasn't light yet, or it may have been while on my paper route I did when I was 14) I found a cat with its head stuck in a dogfood can. I placed my hand on the cat and it tensed up. I could tell it was terrified, it wanted to run away, but it could not see. I pulled the can off and as soon as it could see the cat took off. No thanks, just terrified flight.
      As an adult I found a pair of distressed geese. They were parents and their babies were stuck. As I walked up the adults began to attack me. beating me with their wings and biting me. It hurt but wasn't actually dangerous to me. As soon as I freed the first baby the birds stopped attacking me. It was clear they realized I wasn't there to hurt their babies, I was helping.
     What really surprised me later these two adults I'm assuming they were the same birds, otherwise what they did made no sense) stopped me twice to show off their growing babies. And the following season, they stopped me again to show off their new babies.
    These were Canadian Geese, not the friendliest birds. There is a reason why they are called "water fowl" though foul would be more accurate.
    These birds clearly not only knew I helped them, they remembered me, and thought I would like to know how they were doing.

We were at a park one day, relatively far from water I have to say (a few kilometers). A seagull was flying over us, circling closer and closer. At some point, we could see that it seemed to be holding something in its beak. It eventually landed nearby and looked like it was calling to us. Then we noticed that the seagull had a fishing hook piercing its beak, going through a nostril. It was obviously afraid, but being very courageous. We caught the seagull and held it firm. It was a little bit panicking, but stayed still. We managed to unhook the fishing hook from its beak. It bled a little. It looked painful. Once the hook was gone, the seagull stayed near us for a few minutes before leaving.
That seagull showed obvious signs of intelligence.

“wild animals are watching us far more carefully than we watch them, and they are drawing conclusions”

that was deep

I held my cat when she gave birth. A couple of months later, I was pregnant and sat down. She deliberately put a paw on my lower abdomen just above the pubis. I looked at her and her eyes were sparkling. I swear she was smiling. In that moment I knew that she knew! No human being around me knew I was pregnant unless I had told them. But my cat figured it out and showed kindness and support.

saved an Australian Brushtail Possum from drowning once, it kept returning and we became friends, wonderful experience

One morning I was coming back from the night shift and, to get home, I had to pass by a basketball court enclosed by a high wire fence. I noticed an agitated flock of crows that were cawing loudly and flying around erratically. One of them had its leg tangled in the wire. Seeing this, I started walking towards it, and as I approached, the other crows all flew to the top of the fence right above it, became completely silent, and just watched me. I started untangling the wire, and even though the crow was defending itself and panicking, the whole flock remained silent, not making a single sound. The exact moment I freed it and it took off, all the others flew away after it, cawing loudly. One of the coolest experiences I’ve ever had

4:00 Yeah a friend had a crow friend when he a kid. It later stayed with him for basically the whole season even after recovering

4:58 GOSH DAMN IT! MY GRANPA WAS ALL THE TIME RIGHT ABOUT IT! 😭 And as a child I thought he was only joking.

I would regularly feed a bunch of crows french fries at the same place, in the parking lot for a public beach when I was 18.  The crows in turn would give me little trinkets.  One of the trinkets turned out of be an engagement ring that at the time was worth $35,000.  Me being a dumb 18 year old, I took the ring to a pawn shop to see if it had value.  The ring was reported stolen and well, the pawn shop called the cops on me as the ring matched a photo of a missing ring.

So the cops arrive, cuff me without even saying why and in less than an hour I'm being interrogated on how I got the ring.  What the report stated was this lady took off her ring and went swimming at the same beach I fed the crows and when she came back could not find her ring.  I had to explain to about half a dozen cops that a crow gave me the ring and I had no idea it was worth anything.  For six hours I kept my story consistent and I would not break, hell, I would not even say I intended to sell the ring.

Eventually, a detective heard the story I was giving and decided to talk to me.  I was even pleading to the cops to let me prove I was not lying by letting me show them exactly what happened.  The detective was actually curious enough and let me prove my story.  I took my own car as I would sit in it when feeding the crows with the detective as my passenger.  So I bought some McDonalds french fries, and started to feed the crows.  Like clockwork, the crows would give me little trinkets they could find in exchange for more fries.  The detective lost it and laughed, he could not believe it despite seeing it.

Eventually I did have to appear in court, and the judge even laughed saying this was the funniest case he ever was a part of.  I was found not guilty, but I can no longer feed any birds in the state of New Hampshire.  So yeah, even back about 25 years ago, a New Hampshire judge knew how crows behave and realized I befriended them.

I'm close to 46. Lived my whole life in rural Kansas, on a farm. The local coyotes and hawks have adapted to farmers. This isn't a situation of interventional helping, but rather, of respected barriers that's become helpful to all 3 species. We don't feed them. We also don't harass them unless they push boundaries into places we don't want them. Sort of a middle ground. A coyote or hawk that's going after chickens or pets will be killed. And it's been a very rare occurrence since I was a kid. But we don't go after them when they're after vermin. We're not goinna stop and attack them if they're just hanging out and doing their thing, because their thing usually results in a lot less crop loss to said vermin. They'll watch the farm machinery. They'll wait until a tractor or combine scares a rabbit or field mouse or snake, and go after it. The coyotes will teach the pups not to intrude on our lawns. I've seen them doing this. Mama coyote stopping them and moving them away from the grass at the edge of the field. And we let her and the pups move on. We don't kill or overly harass those that aren't causing a problem, because those that take their place may not be as well-mannered. But we also don't coddle them, don't feed them. Don't try to be their buddies or "tame" them. But we try to be a good enough neighbor, and they seem to be as well.

I found a crow that was dehydrated and weak near a fast food dumpster a few years back. I called a rescue, but they never showed up to help the crow. I checked in on him for three days before I decided to take things into my own hands and try to capture it. The crow practically jumped into the towel and my arms. I called the rescue again and finally got some help for it. While we waited for the volunteer to show up, I watered it by hand and offered it some nuts and mealworms I picked up from the pet store. It was such a gentle crow. Which I was relieved for because I was kinda scared of being bitten by it, if I'm honest. But once the volunteer got there, the bird's personality flipped 180, and it bit the lady at every opertunity it got and didn't want anything to do with her. Unfortunately for the crow, I was not equipped to take care of it myself, so she did end up taking it with her. It was wild to see that my experience with the bird was vastly different from hers. The only thing I could think of is maybe the crow knew I was the one who had kept checking in on it and could tell I was genuinely concerned for it, whereas with the volunteer, the only reason they were finally willing to take the crow and help it was that I had already captured it. They normally do not care for them, as they are considered nuisances. That made me sad to hear that.

A crow’s brain outperforms corporate software. When I heard that I just burst out laughing! That is a very low bar!

10:37 It’s incredible how animals can sense intention. This is pure and beautiful.

One of the "fun" parts of a dog looking guilty is that when there is another dog also present, the one that didn't do it (whatever it was), doesn't look guilty. Sometimes even points out the one that did it xD

Once as a kid I was walking uphill back from the store with a bottle of soda and some chips. My butterfingers dropped the bottle and looked at it rolling properly 80 meters down.
3 crows that had been sitting one a roof, QUIETLY, all began to laugh. Not caw, laugh.

I’m still more afraid of making a fool of myself in front of birds than humans. Getting disrespected by a bird hits differently.

Remember the story of a hunter who came across a wolf mother ensnared in a trap. Her pups distressed around her. He approached only for the wolf to act aggressive. He brought down a deer and carved it up feeding the pups and leaving some near the trapped wolf. He sat down in plain sight and over the course of hours would slowly move forward. The pups accepted the man and when the mother realised he wasn't harming her pups she relaxed some. She tenced again when he started working on the trap. After freeing her, her leg was damaged and he performed care. Eventually he woke up and they had gone. Years later he returned to hunt at the same location. A pack of wolves followed him the whole time.

A deer once looked me dead in the eyes after I moved it off the road. That wasn't confusion — that was a whole conversation. 🦌 Animals understand more than we give them credit for, and honestly that idea keeps me up at night.