These birds may not have evolved to use tools in the wild, but carrion crows, a member of the crow (Corvid) family, have now shown they’re more than capable of learning how. In a study recently ...

Crows are highly intelligent. They can recognize faces, hold grudges, and even recognize cars. Crows cache food, and will move it if another creature sees them hiding it. They use tools, and fashion ...

I demand war on the dinosaurs. Today they're making hooked hunting tools, tomorrow they're making WMDs. It's become obvious that it was the crows 65 million years ago. They're like feathery little ...

Mounting tiny video cameras to the tail feathers of crows, researchers discovered that the birds use a variety of tools to seek food, and even make their own tools, plucking, smoothing and bending ...

New Caledonian crows have an instinctive ability to make and use tools, British researchers reported in this week’s issue of the journal Nature. They bred four crows in captivity and found all the ...

This is a schematic illustration of the study rationale. New Caledonian crows consume a range of foods, but require tools to extract wood-boring beetle larvae from their burrows. These larvae, with ...

Some years ago, a bird researcher visited a famous institute that deals with primate cognition to give a talk. When the director of the institute introduced the bird researcher and his talk, he used ...