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I saw a racoon mimic a human's voice to distract someone to go outside while the racoon snuck in and grabbed all the timbits

I've seen a crow fly down from a tree and land on the corner of a sidewalk, look down the street in both directions, and then cross the street.

It was simultaneously the smartest and dumbest thing I've seen a wild animal do. Smart in that it actually looked both ways and crossed when the traffic was clear. Dumb in that the stupid bird could have just flown over and not had to worry about shit.

Not 100% wild, but I once saw a lost/stray gray cat approach a woman (my wife) in a Family Dollar parking lot in the freezing cold meowing for help. She was exactly the correct person to seek help from and it was a smart move because here he is a year later (we adopted him):

I watched a crow throw nuts on a street to get them cracked by the cars driving on it. Those guys are Hella smart!

My niece's French bulldog would bump a chair with his head to move it across the kitchen, then use it to reach a bowl of pecans on the counter. He only counts as wild animal because he liked to drag his stuffed animals to the living room and hump them in front of the tv.

I've seen deer NOT jump in front of my car. That's genius level for those things.

My siamese cat tricked me into taking care of her full time, providing the most expensive veterinary food, yearly visit to the vet with all the vaccines, daily manual depoopificafion of her toilet with the most exquisite unscented natural clay litter, access to my bed with 100% cotton linens, a permanent bedding area with a heating mat underneath, brushing on demand (she's a siamese so the demand is LOUD), and so on. 17 years of servitude so far.

edit: saw too late that it was a request for "wild" animals, sorry

Run the hell away from humans