Areesha Batool

🕊️ 1. The Myth or Symbolic Meaning

In many cultures, people believe crows are spiritual birds — messengers between life and death. Because they’re very intelligent and often appear around death or cemeteries, myths grew that crows “don’t die naturally” or that their souls reincarnate or transform instead of dying.

So, when people say “crows don’t die a physical death,” they often mean it symbolically — that crows are immortal in spirit or too mysterious to die like other creatures.

🧬 2. The Scientific Reality

Crows are very much mortal creatures.

They live about 7–8 years in the wild, and up to 20 years in captivity.

They die from disease, predators, starvation, accidents, or old age, just like other animals.

What’s fascinating is that crows often hold “funeral” gatherings when one dies — they gather around the body, caw loudly, and seem to “mourn” or learn what happened.

That behavior might be why people rarely see crows dead — they often die quietly in hidden spots or the flock removes the body.

💡 3. Why People Rarely See Dead Crows

Crows are intelligent and tend to avoid human areas when sick or dying.

Their bodies decompose or are eaten quickly by scavengers.

Their social behavior — alerting others and avoiding dangerous places — reduces the number of visible dead crows.

Surprised? Despite its name, a sunflower is not a single flower— it’s actually a collection of hundreds, even thousands, of tiny flowers clustered together!

The large yellow "petals" we see around the edge are called ray florets, and they don’t produce seeds. But the real magic happens in the center — that’s where the disc florets live, each a complete flower capable of producing its own seed.

So next time you look at a sunflower, you’re actually looking at a whole bouquet growing as one — a perfect example of unity and natural design.