Perhaps the first one didn't want the food... if it did, it wouldn't have helped the other crow but would instead just have done it on its own and taken the foo

Perhaps the first one didn't want the food... if it did, it wouldn't have helped the other crow but would instead just have done it on its own and taken the food. After all, if it's able to use the stick to probe on its own, wouldn't it stand to reason that it didn't even need to have helped the other crow except out of benevolence?