Archive for 'intelligence'
Lecture on Crows by John Marzluff
You might have heard of this fellow, John Marzluff. He is a professor at the University of Washington who studies crows. He is the one who led the research with the ability of facial recognition by crows. If you haven’t read it, you can read it here. Yes, crows can recognize a person’s face and [...]
Posted: March 19th, 2012 under corvid, corvid brain, Corvid Cognition, Corvidae, Corvidae Family, Corvids, Crow, crows, facial recognition, intelligence, John Marzluff.
Tags: academic on crows, crows, john marzluff, lecture on crows, University of Washington
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A Murder of Crows (PBS Special)
I record the Nature series on PBS and I watched one I thought you might be interested in, A Murder of Crows.
You can watch the full episode here.
Watch the full episode. See more Nature.
Posted: February 16th, 2011 under corvid, Corvidae, Corvids, Crow, crows, Crows and Movies, intelligence.
Tags: crow documentary, crows, documentary on crows, feathered apes, information about crows, murder of crows, nature special, PBS
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Make a Joyful Noise Audio Recording
A few weeks ago I posted about Make a Joyful Noise written by Charles de Lint (read post here). I enthusiastically shared two of my favorite literary characters, the Crow Girls, Maida and Zia. This story is not available to purchase anymore but since I had a copy I thought I would ask the author [...]
Posted: January 4th, 2011 under art, corvid, Corvidae, Corvidae Family, Corvids, Crow, Crow art, crows, Crows in literature, cultural reference, Culture, Fables, folklore, fun, intelligence, Literature, lore, myth, mythology, Myths about ravens.
Tags: Charles De Lint, Charles DeLint, Crow girls, crows and literature, literature about crows, Make a Joyful Noise, The crow girls
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The Crow and the Pitcher more than fable?
The Crow and the Pitcher, originally uploaded by AnnaleeBlysse.
Scientists believe the fable of the crow and the pitcher might have been fairly accurate given the new research showing rooks using rocks to raise the level of water where a worm resided… to bring the worm up to their level.1
They are such incredibly intelligent birds. The [...]
Posted: December 21st, 2010 under Aesop, corvid, corvid brain, Corvid Cognition, Corvidae, Corvidae Family, Corvids, Crow, crows, Crows in literature, Fables, feeding, folklore, Food, intelligence, Literature, lore, research, Rook, Tool Use.
Tags: Aesop's fable, crow and the pitcher, crow intelligence, fluid mechanics, intelligence, the crow and the pitcher, Tool Use
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Ravens do what it takes…
These white-necked ravens are hungry and clever. They want some of that food! Watch this video and see how clever they are in their pursuit of food.
You can’t blame them for trying!
Posted: July 11th, 2010 under Food, intelligence, Raven, White-necked crow.
Tags: clever ravens, raven video, ravens and food, ravens and intelligence, White-necked raven
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Rooks and tools
Researchers in the Britain may have stumbled upon something interesting about rooks that Aesop observed some two-thousand-five-hundred years before. Rooks use different size stones to raise water levels in a tube that contains a worm. Is this really a recent ‘discovery’…read Aesop’s fable The Crow and the Pitcher:
A Crow, half-dead with thirst, came upon a [...]
Posted: August 7th, 2009 under Aesop, Corvidae, Corvids, Corvus Frugilegus, intelligence, research, Rook, Tool Use, video.
Tags: Aesop, Aesop's fable, britain, corvid fable, corvid myth, corvid story, fables, pebbles, research, rook myth, rook story, stones, the crow and the pitcher, the pitcher and the crow, Tool Use, tool use and crows, tool-use and birds, tool-use and rooks, water level, worm
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Update on the New Caledonian Crows and Tools
Clever crow creates a new tool
Watch the video—it is fascinating. =)
Posted: May 8th, 2009 under intelligence, New Caledonian Crow, Tool Use.
Tags: corvids are intelligent, crows and intelligence, crows and tool use, crows are intelligent, crows are smart, crows make tools, crows use new tools, crows use tool, crows use tools, intelligent crows, tool use and crows, Tools
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Corvid Cartoons
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Posted: April 20th, 2009 under cartoons, Corvidae, Corvids, crows, intelligence, Raven.
Tags: bird cartoon, cartoon, corvid cartoon, corvid cartoons, crow cartoon, crow cartoons, crows, jay cartoon, raven cartoon
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The Validity of the Crow Vending Machine
The validity of the Crow Vending Machine has been put into question because of misinformation given to reporters. Josh Klein never worked with Binghamton University like he claimed but the newspaper didn’t catch it. John Klein says it was a misunderstanding. Who knows what the truth is? I would like to see the experiment repeated [...]
Posted: April 18th, 2009 under American Crow, Corvidae, Corvids, Crow, Crow vending machine, crows, Crows and Birdfeeders, intelligence, New York Times, research, vending machine.
Tags: Crow vending machine, Josh Klein, vending machines for crows
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Legendary Ravens
Ravens are majestic birds and thus inspire great and terrible legends, myths, folklore and superstitions. It is no wonder with their capacity for intelligence. Ravens have exactly the same brain-to-body ratio as dolphins and almost the same as humans. “If crows were human, their average IQ would be 135 (the average for humans is 100!)”1 [...]
Posted: April 14th, 2009 under corvid, Corvidae, Corvids, folklore, Huginn, intelligence, learning, legend, lore, Memory, Muninn, myth, mythology, Myths about ravens, Odin, origin of raven, Raven, Raven myths, ravens, superstitions.
Tags: beliefs about ravens, raven beliefs, raven folklore, raven lore, raven mythology, Raven myths, raven superstitions, ravens and beliefs, ravens and folklore, ravens and legends, ravens and lore, ravens and mythology, ravens and myths, ravens and superstitions, Ravens are intelligent
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