Your comment reminded me of another article about crows. It sounds like gifting is a known phenomenon but isn't that well established or researched.
https://www.audubon.org/news/did-crows-actually-make-these-g...
https://www.audubon.org/news/did-crows-actually-make-these-g...
If crows are social and they have their own theory of mind it’s not a huge leap to suspect they’d make friends or try and give friends what they think are valuable gifts and that wouldn’t need to be limited to just other crows.