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 ...
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What makes crows so clever? The science behind their intelligence
Crows do not just fly around scavenging but they also solve puzzles, make tools, remember faces and pass down knowledge ...
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 ...
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Magpie vs crow: Which is actually smarter?
Both magpies and crows belong to the corvid family, a group renowned for exceptional intelligence that rivals primates in many […] ...
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: ...
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 ...
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