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Clever Carrion Crows Prove They Can Learn to Use Tools

These birds may not have evolved to use tools in the wild, but carrion crows, a member of the crow (Corvid) family, have now ...
Ars Technica

For crows, a little tool use goes a long way

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 ...
Napa Valley Register

These crows almost went extinct before scientists discovered they can use tools

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: ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Emotions and Intelligence of Urban Birds ()

The emotions and intelligence of urban birds remind us that they are not merely “inhabitants” of the city but sentient beings ...
AOL

49 Times Crows Were Seen Doing Scarily Smart Things

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 ...
insider.si.edu

Experimental resource pulses influence social-network dynamics and the potential for information flow in tool-using crows

St Clair, James J. H. Burns, Zackory T. Bettaney, Elaine M. Morrissey, Michael B. arrow-up Back to top ...
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Are crows really street smart? Science confirms the genius of corvids (commentary)

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 ...