# Crows: Best Way To Attract Them? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 10, 2017, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crows-best-way-to-attract-them/779502 "2017-02-10T22:06:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 38
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crows-best-way-to-attract-them/779502/38 "2017-02-14T21:08:14Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > Do crows have the ability to mimick human speech like a Minah? Yes. My dad had a crow that could say “Bob crows hot.” > [@Can Crows really talk?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-crows-really-talk/142153/25): > > I even saw one site that mentioned a Blue Jay that was able to talk, although it could say only one word. I don’t know about talking - ours never learned it. But they are pretty good mimics. Our crow and blue jay would mimic each other. The blue jay would sound like a crow way across the yard up in a tree, and our crow would sound like a 40 lb blue jay. > [@Quasimodem](#): > > So this is day two and I put out those Wild Hog Sausage scraps which, if the weather were warmer would probably get rancid after a few days. Crows are scavengers, rancid helps them find it. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crows-best-way-to-attract-them/779502)._