It’s no secret corvids are endowed with remarkable cognitive abilities. The internet is awash with videos of crows imitating voices or solving complex brainteasers. But are these birds as intelligent as they are made out to be? The nutcracker puzzle One of the most quoted studies to back up the thesis of a superior intelligence […]
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10 Fun Facts About the American Crow
American Crows are a familiar sight across the country, common everywhere except our hottest and driest deserts. While crows in folklore and fiction are often associated with trickery and death (a group of crows is, after all, called a “murder”), recent research has shed new light on just how intelligent and family-oriented these birds can […]
Hawaiian crow could help us learn about evolutionary origins of tool-using behavior
There are only a handful of bird species known to use tools for foraging in the wild, and now the ‘Alalā, or Hawaiian crow, can be counted as one of them. According to a study published in the journal Nature this week, the New Caledonian crow (Corvus moneduloides), which inhabits only the main island of the […]