Tag: intelligence
Wily Raven
What a fun video! This raven is intelligent and figures things out quickly… check it out…
Posted: April 3rd, 2012 under corvid, Corvidae, Corvidae Family, Corvids, Crow, crow videos, crows, feeding, Food, ravens, video.
Tags: intelligence, Intelligent, Raven, video
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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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Spontaneous Metatool Use by New Caledonian Crows
Copyright © 2007 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved.
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Spontaneous Metatool Use by New Caledonian Crows
Alex H. Taylor1, , , Gavin R. Hunt1, Jennifer C. Holzhaider1 and Russell D. Gray1, ,
1Department of Psychology, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, New Zealand
Received 27 June 2007;
revised 24 July 2007;
accepted 25 July 2007.
Published online: August 16, 2007.
Available [...]
Posted: April 3rd, 2009 under behavior, bird brain, Caledonian, cognition, corvid brain, Corvid Cognition, Corvidae, Corvids, Corvus moneduloides, Crow, crows, intelligence, metatools, New Caledonian Crow, Problem Solving, Tool Use, video.
Tags: Corvus moneduloides, crow intelligence, crows, crows and tools, crows are intelligent, intelligence, intelligent bird, metatool, New Caledonian Crow, Spontaneous Metatool Use by New Caledonian Crows, Tool Use, tools and crows
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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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Caching Corvids
Did you know that the corvid-family of birds cache food for later — saving it in multiple spots for many months? They also watch other birds cache food and steal it–moving it for themselves. They are sneaky. They pay attention. This is interesting. There brain size to body ratio is relative to primates. They are [...]
Posted: March 19th, 2009 under American Crow, bird cam, caching, Common Crow, Corvidae, Corvids, Crow, family, feeding, Habitat, intelligence, Photograph, Pictures.
Tags: American Crow, birds, cache, caching, Crow, crows, decline, food caching, intelligence, Memory, Northern crow, population, spatial memory, survival
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A Little Larceny Comes Naturally To Northwestern Crows
ScienceDaily (2001-12-12) — Crows and ravens are depicted as being clever and tricky animals in countless American Indian stories and legends. Those characterizations apparently are right on the mark, according to a pair of University of Washington researchers who have found a species of crow that is constantly looking for opportunities to steal food from [...]
Posted: November 10th, 2008 under Common Crow, Corvidae, Corvids, Corvus caurinus, Crow, family, feeding, Northwestern crow, sneaky.
Tags: competition for food, Corvus caurinus, crow competition, crows, crows steal food, families, flock, ingenuity, intelligence, Northwestern crow, Northwestern crows, resourceful, study, University of Washington
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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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Crows beat chimps in mental test
Crows seem to be able to use causal reasoning to solve a problem, a feat previously undocumented in any other non-human animal, including chimps.
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Posted: September 23rd, 2008 under Chimps, Corvidae, Corvids, Crow, intelligence, News, Problem Solving.
Tags: Chimps, crows, intelligence, Problem Solving
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Crows are the Einsteins of the avian world
In the journal Current Biology, researchers conclude that the birds’ tool-use skills rival those seen among great apes, such as chimpanzees and gorillas. Moreover, the birds appeared to solve the problem with reasoning rather than brute force trial and error.
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Posted: September 21st, 2008 under Caledonian, Chimps, Corvidae, Corvids, Crow, intelligence, News, Tool Use.
Tags: chimpanzees, crows, intelligence, Tool Use
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Crows Have Human-Like Intelligence, Author Says
Crows make tools, play tricks on each other, and caw among kin in a dialect all their own. These are just some of the signs presented in a recent book that point to an unexpected similarity between the wise birds and humans.
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Posted: September 20th, 2008 under Corvidae, Corvids, Crow, intelligence, News.
Tags: crows, intelligence, Tools
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