Animal training can teach carrion crows to use a stick tool to retrieve food. With increasing practice, they not only demonstrate great skill and achieve their objective in a few steps, they also ...

These birds may not have evolved to use tools in the wild, but carrion crows, a member of the crow (Corvid) family, have now shown they’re more than capable of learning how. In a study recently ...

A research team at the University of Tübingen demonstrates experimentally how crows learn to dexterously handle a stick with their beak and use it for precise food retrieval Animal training can teach ...

The American crow, from the corvid family of birds, is one of the most intelligent animals living today. Research into crows’ level of intelligence is relatively new, but people have known for ...

Crows endemic to New Caledonia happen to be extremely smart, proving to be among the most intelligent birds, with scientific research shedding light on their exceptional mental faculties. When we ...

Most birds impress us with colour, speed or song, but crows stand out for something far more unusual: their minds. They live in cities, forests, farms, mountains and coastlines, and wherever they go, ...

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Ah, spring. That time of year when young crows and other birds are leaving the nest and learning to fly. Unfortunately, it’s ...