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graphite #2 pencil, ballpoint pen, text added in Paint.NET
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Special thanks to X.Cytilinsk for encouraging me to even put up uncolored sciency brainfart stuff like this, and special thanks to The-Greys for bringing me to DA! Aristotle was right - without friends, you have nothing.]

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Millions of years in the future, what may happen to crows?
These crows are more intelligent than human beings, and have developed technology to let them take shuttles into space.
They have no hands at all, and the idea of doing anything with hands sounds weird, and sometimes stupid to them.
They are 2-3 feet tall, spend half their time on the ground and half in trees, have a chicken-like body structure, and limited flight. They can fly, but to fly like eagles or herons, they have to exercise their pecs and train for flight for years.
These crows re-evolved "raptor" attributes. They have the sickle toe claw for easy climbing up nearly anything, and the claw can have a second use as self defense. They also have re-evolved a stiff long bony tail for balance without needing to use their leg or back muscles as much as modern birds.
Their 3 fingered hands have fused into one giant thumb and palm, for flight. Their beaks have evolved for almost any kind of food, mostly meat, nuts, and fruit.
During their civilization's early days, they did not build houses, and tools were built for a one or two time use. Intelligence was not important, but ingenuity over everything. A society is complicated, it is a group of parents who are all friends, and their mates are strangers to everyone but their mate. This society overlaps with other societies for limited times.
Communication is through sound and body motions. When they met the hyper-intelligent ground bees, they learned how to speak through dance and vibration, which cemented a millennia old relationship between the species.
These crows can live up to 100 years. With advanced medicine, 160-200 is average.
Tribal societies of octopi along certain coastlines were met with confusion and predator behavior. When the octopi approached the crow society with sound-blasting 24th century stereos, this opened the crows to seeing them not as food, but as fellow intelligent beings. Some crows, though, will still try to get a foolish octopus alone so they can kill and eat him. There is no shame if it is known by no others. The more crimes a crow can commit without causing harm to greater society or leaving evidence, the more they can be heralded in their later life.
Crime is seen as good, as long as it benefits everyone to some extent. Some crimes include, feeding others' children, or spanking a bad chick from another society, or pranks. One of these pranks was putting a giant duck egg into a crow's nest. But it led to the domestication of the giant carnivorous ducks, who can be used like swamp dogs.
Giant herbivorous spiders were domesticated and bred for their webbing and babies as food. This webbing was so important to crow civilizations that live spiders are sometimes used as currency. Spiders were intensely bred to have dull fangs and no venom, and over-produce silk. Most spiders we know today are very rare, if not extinct. Flightless bats and insect-eating mice and lizards have evolved to take the spider place over where they are gone.

Description

graphite #2 pencil, ballpoint pen, text added in Paint.NET
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Special thanks to X.Cytilinsk for encouraging me to even put up uncolored sciency brainfart stuff like this, and special thanks to The-Greys for bringing me to DA! Aristotle was right - without friends, you have nothing.]

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Millions of years in the future, what may happen to crows?
These crows are more intelligent than human beings, and have developed technology to let them take shuttles into space.
They have no hands at all, and the idea of doing anything with hands sounds weird, and sometimes stupid to them.
They are 2-3 feet tall, spend half their time on the ground and half in trees, have a chicken-like body structure, and limited flight. They can fly, but to fly like eagles or herons, they have to exercise their pecs and train for flight for years.
These crows re-evolved "raptor" attributes. They have the sickle toe claw for easy climbing up nearly anything, and the claw can have a second use as self defense. They also have re-evolved a stiff long bony tail for balance without needing to use their leg or back muscles as much as modern birds.
Their 3 fingered hands have fused into one giant thumb and palm, for flight. Their beaks have evolved for almost any kind of food, mostly meat, nuts, and fruit.
During their civilization's early days, they did not build houses, and tools were built for a one or two time use. Intelligence was not important, but ingenuity over everything. A society is complicated, it is a group of parents who are all friends, and their mates are strangers to everyone but their mate. This society overlaps with other societies for limited times.
Communication is through sound and body motions. When they met the hyper-intelligent ground bees, they learned how to speak through dance and vibration, which cemented a millennia old relationship between the species.
These crows can live up to 100 years. With advanced medicine, 160-200 is average.
Tribal societies of octopi along certain coastlines were met with confusion and predator behavior. When the octopi approached the crow society with sound-blasting 24th century stereos, this opened the crows to seeing them not as food, but as fellow intelligent beings. Some crows, though, will still try to get a foolish octopus alone so they can kill and eat him. There is no shame if it is known by no others. The more crimes a crow can commit without causing harm to greater society or leaving evidence, the more they can be heralded in their later life.
Crime is seen as good, as long as it benefits everyone to some extent. Some crimes include, feeding others' children, or spanking a bad chick from another society, or pranks. One of these pranks was putting a giant duck egg into a crow's nest. But it led to the domestication of the giant carnivorous ducks, who can be used like swamp dogs.
Giant herbivorous spiders were domesticated and bred for their webbing and babies as food. This webbing was so important to crow civilizations that live spiders are sometimes used as currency. Spiders were intensely bred to have dull fangs and no venom, and over-produce silk. Most spiders we know today are very rare, if not extinct. Flightless bats and insect-eating mice and lizards have evolved to take the spider place over where they are gone.