Archive for 'Memory'
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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Ravens in Norse Mythology
Ravens have often been featured in myths and legends, stories, poems, and religious beliefs. For example, the Norse God Odin was said to have a pair of ravens, Huginn (thought) and Muninn (memory). They were said to travel the world from early morning to late into the evening each and every day in search of [...]
Posted: April 5th, 2009 under Huginn, legend, Memory, Muninn, mythology, Myths about ravens, Norse mythology, Odin, Raven myths, ravens, thought.
Tags: Huginn, Memory, Midgard, Muninn, Norse mythology, Odin, odin and ravens, Raven, raven myth, raven mythology, ravens and norse mythology, ravens and odin, thought
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The Social Life of Corvids
Copyright © 2007 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved.
The social life of corvids
Nicola S. Clayton1, and Nathan J. Emery2,
1Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EB, UK
2Sub-department of Animal Behaviour, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 8AA, UK
Available online 20 August 2007.
Article Outline
Of the 120 species of birds in the corvid family, which includes [...]
Posted: April 4th, 2009 under American Crow, behavior, bird brain, bird brain size, caching, Caledonian, Calls, cognition, Corvidae, Corvids, Crow, crows, eggs, family, Family Recognition, feeding, Fledgling, intelligence, Mating, Memory, metatools, monogamous, Parental care, Problem Solving, Range, Recognition, scientific article, Self-Aware, self-recognition, sociable, Tool Use.
Tags: behavioral flexibility, behavioural flexibility, bill holding, bill twining, bowing, breeding, cache, coloniality, communal, cooperative, cooperative behavior, corvid, corvid sociality, corvids social, crows, crows are sociable, cues, cultural variation, defending the nest, development period, dominant status, fanning, fission-fusion society, florida scrub-jay, food caching, helpers, jays, juvenile, linear dominance hierarchy, magpies, mated pair, mates, Mating, Mexican jay, monogamous, mutual preening, nesting, non-breeding relatives, offspring feeding, post-conflict affiliation, predator watch, ravens, Recognition, relative status, rookery, Rooks, roost, sociable, social, social bonds, social life, social network, social stimulation, social support, stress management, support, territory, vocal sharing, vocalizations, western scrub jay, winter roosts
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Corvid cognition
Copyright © 2005 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved.
Nicola Clayton and Nathan Emery
aDepartment of Experimental Psychology and Sub-department of Animal Behaviour, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Available online 7 February 2005.
Article Outline
What is a corvid? There are just over 120 species of corvids, a family of songbirds that includes the crows, ravens, rooks and jackdaws, as well [...]
Posted: April 1st, 2009 under American Crow, behavior, caching, Caledonian, Calls, cognition, Common Crow, Common Raven, Corvid Cognition, corvid song, Corvidae, Corvids, Corvus brachyrhynchos, Corvus Corax, Crow, egg napping, egg stealing, eggs, family, Family Recognition, feeding, Fledgling, Friends, Habitat, intelligence, jays, Magpie, Mating, Memory, nutcrackers, observation, Problem Solving, Recognition, Self-Aware, self-recognition, stealing eggs, Tool Use.
Tags: biology, bird brain, bird cognition, bird intelligence, birds, cognition, corvid, Corvid Cognition, Corvidae, Corvids, crows, crows are intelligent, crows intelligence, Current Biology, Elsevier, intelligence, jays, magpies, Nathan Emery, Nicola Clayton, nutcrackers, primates, science, ScienceDirect
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The mysterious case of the vengeful crows
I do not know if this really happened or not but if it did… I guess it would make sense. We would remember 7 months later too…
Can crows wait for seven months to take their revenge on a human being… well here is one such case…
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Posted: March 24th, 2009 under American Crow, Calls, Common Crow, Corvidae, Corvids, Crow, crows, family, Family Recognition, Habitat, intelligence, Memory, Recognition.
Tags: Corvidae, Corvids, crows, crows know, crows recognize you, crows remember faces, Memory, Recognition, vengeance, vengeful
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Crows Can Recognize The Calls Of Relatives
American Crow by Mary Alice Bowles
Originally uploaded by maryalice462001
ScienceDaily (2007-03-20) — Most of us would know our mother’s voice on the phone from the first syllable uttered. A recent Cornell study suggests that crows also can recognize the voices of their relatives.
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This woman did a lot of in-depth research [...]
Posted: November 13th, 2008 under American Crow, behavior, Calls, Common Crow, Corvidae, Corvids, Corvus brachyrhynchos, Crow, family, Family Recognition, Flickr, intelligence, Memory, observation, Photograph, Recognition.
Tags: American Crow, crow family, crow recognition, crows, crows are intelligent, crows family, crows intelligence, crows recognize family calls, familiarity, family, family calls, Family Recognition, intelligence in birds, intelligent crows, Recognition
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Friend or Foe? Crows Never Forget a Face, It Seems
Researchers have found that crows, renowned for their ability to flourish in human-dominated landscapes, can recognize individual human faces. In this article they study the recognition abilities and memory of the crow.
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Posted: September 24th, 2008 under Corvidae, Corvids, Crow, intelligence, Marzluff, Memory, News, Recognition.
Tags: crows, face, intelligence, Marzluff, Memory, Recognition
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