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Family Life And Complex Social Structure Of Crows

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Joe Smith shares with us the family life and complex social structure of crows. Each family has a mated pair that shares a space with their grown children. These children help the parents with raising their other birds. A family of crows were observed on a ranch in Florida bringing sticks to a nesting mother. After the nest is built, her mate and the other crows bring food to her. After the young crows hatched, many helpers visited without bringing anything and the mother would move aside so they could get a better look at her babies. The family makes around 20 visits per hour to feed the young. This is a behavior known as "cooperative breeding". Cooperative breeding is not a behavior found in all crow species, it's a social adaption that is
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