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 ...

Researchers trace the areas of the brain that are active when birds are using tools. Crows are the coolest. I live in coastal Washington, and I always enjoy watching the contrast between the crows and ...

Do you think animals have some secret intelligence superior to our own? Do dolphins solve problems of great complexity? Do ...

There is a huge variety of bird species in the animal kingdom that are unique and have different abilities, which makes them different from each other. Thus, some of these animals are smart and are ...