The animal itself
Ravens recognise individual human faces, hold grudges for years, and communicate about specific people to other ravens. Captive ravens solve multi-step puzzles that defeat most primates.1 of 2 calendars · 1,600 searches a month
Raven
The raven is read as reading situations others miss. It appears in one of the two birth calendars we cover. The two are presented online as interchangeable, yet they name the same animal on only 17 days of 365 — 4.7% of the year.
Which calendar assigns it, and when
Native American calendar
22 September – 22 October
Its zodiac sign
Libra
Only the Native American calendar assigns this one. Anyone born in these dates gets a different animal from the other system — the two agree on 4.7% of days →
What it stands for, and where that came from
Reading situations others miss — intelligence without warmth.
Honoured in: Norse Huginn and Muninn as thought and memory; Pacific Northwest raven as the creator who steals the sun; Tower of London ravens kept by royal decree.
Counted across all 39 animals
Where the raven sits
22/39
animals here carry a birth-date range. The other 17 are symbols
people choose, not ones a date assigns.
4.7%
of the year — 17 days out of 365 —
is where the two calendars name the same animal. The rest of the time they
disagree.
17th
most looked-up of the 39 animals we cover.
Both calendars are published online as though interchangeable. They are not, and the disagreement is the reason two sites can give you different animals for the same birthday. How the two calendars differ →
Searched about as often
Raven is ranked 17 of 39 by search demand. Of all 39 animals here, 22 sit in one of the two birth-date calendars and 17 are searched as symbols only.