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 ...

Corvus splendens — Corvus meaning ‘raven’ in Latin and splendens meaning ‘shining’ or ‘brilliance’ — is a fitting name for the strikingly intelligent birds that house crows are. Crows have long ...

In a 2020 study, crows performed a complex task that involved hundreds of firing sensory analytical neurons. Crows can do jobs, share knowledge, and even ritualistically mourn their dead. Recent ...

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 ...

Whenever people talk about a past life, they often say they were pharaohs or possibly a lady in waiting to Marie Antoinette or maybe a famous Russian ballet star. I am not sure if I believe in past ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) - 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, ...

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Like humans, crows find city life stressful, unhealthy, scientists say. May 5, 2013— -- The American crow, which in so many ways is so much like humans, is moving from the countryside to the big ...

They descend on Rochester every late fall, in a feathery cloud of doom. They circle. They caw. They poop on sidewalks and dig through garbage cans. The murder has arrived for the winter. They plan to ...