A study of New Caledonian crows, which use sticks to fish beetle larvae out of tree trunks, shows exactly how advantageous tool use can be for animals. "Evolutionarily, animals that use tools have an ...
Besides being dark and mysterious, crows are extremely intelligent birds. So smart, in fact, that it might be a little bit scary. Even though their brains are the size of a human thumb, their ...
When Jane Goodall first encountered chimpanzees using twigs as tools in 1960—something that scientists had assumed only humans could do — she wrote an excited telegram to her colleague Louis Leakey: ...
Corvus splendens — Corvus meaning ‘raven’ in Latin and splendens meaning ‘shining’ or ‘brilliance’ — is a fitting name for the strikingly intelligent birds that house crows are. Crows have long ...
St Clair, James J. H. Burns, Zackory T. Bettaney, Elaine M. Morrissey, Michael B. arrow-up Back to top ...
WASHINGTON -- Betty was hungry, but the food was out of reach and the tool needed to get at it had been swiped by a bully. What to do? Grab some wire, bend it into a hook, and get the food. Betty may ...
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Is It Permissible to Keep Crows as Pets?
Birds like crows, jackdaws, or magpies are highly intelligent and social. This raises the question of whether crows can be ...
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