Tag: Tool Use
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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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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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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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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