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 ...

Researchers trace the areas of the brain that are active when birds are using tools. Crows are the coolest. I live in coastal Washington, and I always enjoy watching the contrast between the crows and ...

Crows do not just fly around scavenging but they also solve puzzles, make tools, remember faces and pass down knowledge ...

The ability to plan for future events is one of the defining features of human intelligence. Whether non-human animals can plan for specific future situations remains contentious: despite a sustained ...

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 ...

There is a huge variety of bird species in the animal kingdom that are unique and have different abilities, which makes them different from each other. Thus, some of these animals are smart and are ...

Crows have a reputation for being clever, but many people don’t realize just how smart they truly are. Without speaking a word, crows have shown that they can solve problems, plan ahead, and even ...

Some years ago, a bird researcher visited a famous institute that deals with primate cognition to give a talk. When the director of the institute introduced the bird researcher and his talk, he used ...

In the early 20th century, scientists maintained that one of the fundamental differences between animals and humans is that ...