As recently as 60 years ago, we humans believed we were the only animals on Earth that could use tools. That impression was proved wrong in 1960 when famed primatologist Jane Goodall observed ...

A research team at the University of Tübingen demonstrates experimentally how crows learn to dexterously handle a stick with their beak and use it for precise food retrieval Animal training can teach ...

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 ...

Biologists have figured out how the New Caledonian crow, a bird famed for using tools, does its party trick. Corvus moneduloides, a native of France's South Pacific territory of New Caledonia, is one ...

Both magpies and crows belong to the corvid family, a group renowned for exceptional intelligence that rivals primates in ...

Many animals, including crows, chimps, orangutans, and octopuses, have mastered what we once thought was a humans-only trick: using tools. A lot of research on the subject has focused on how animals ...

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 ...