Oregon, crows also can (as a lot of people already know) talk quite clearly. A friend and I were at the Ft. Worth, Texas, zoo one day, in about 1960. He was smoking a cigarette. When we passed by the crow exhibit, the crows kept looking at us like they wanted us to give them a morsel of food. Doug, flipped his cig butt into the cage. One of the crows picked it up with his beak, and of course got burned. He flew into the wire screen screaming at us and flapping his wings. Then he broke into a string of curses that really surprised me! He was calling us sons of bit**es, and the 'mf' words. We made a hasty retreat away from the cage! I had always heard that a crow could be taught to talk if you split it's tongue. Not so, as I later read somewhere. Yes, they are very intelligent and can learn to talk just by hearing people talking. How that one learned to 'curse like a sailor', I don't know. I can't remember what all he said, but we heard several curse phrases from him.