Dog and Bird Are Friends

This is one of the strangest animal videos that I've ever seen.

My first thought was that the Australian magpie in this video is badly injured--that it can't escape the dog. But no: the bird can walk and fly easily. It keeps returning to the dog to play and cuddle with him. Then at 3:10, it gets involved with the human's laundry work.

-via David Thompson

I'm guessing this magpie was raised by the family from a fledgling, since it shows no hesitation to play with the humans either. Also, I've never seen a bird lie on it's side like that, legs in the air. That looks like a behavior it's learned from playing with the puppies. I wonder if it will learn any human speech?
Corvids are awesome.

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Awesome :D Love how the birdy keeps rolling on to its back or side and that the puppy knows to be at least a little gentle with it heh. Reminds me of the crow that adopted the kitten.

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