Are crows smart? Learn more about the intelligence of crows and their unique relationship with humans.

A study of New Caledonian crows, which use sticks to fish beetle larvae out of tree trunks, shows exactly how advantageous tool use can be for animals. "Evolutionarily, animals that use tools have an ...

Besides being dark and mysterious, crows are extremely intelligent birds. So smart, in fact, that it might be a little bit scary. Even though their brains are the size of a human thumb, their ...

Recent studies are revealing that crows possess cognitive abilities, including understanding time and self-assessment, ...

When Jane Goodall first encountered chimpanzees using twigs as tools in 1960—something that scientists had assumed only humans could do — she wrote an excited telegram to her colleague Louis Leakey: ...

Next time you have difficulty fixing something, you should probably look up to these birds! Scientists have found that parrots and crows possess innovative skills for solving technical problems ...

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 ...