In the book Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans, corvid expert John Marzluff describes the charms of crows and suggests that we appreciate ...

Crows aren’t just natural cleanup crews that devour dead animals or discarded food. They also are playful and smart, use tools, remember human faces and mimic sounds.

Despite the difficulty, the crows succeeded, proving these scavengers are actually quite smart. They consistently identified shapes that were just slightly off, detecting differences based on ...

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 ...

Crows are considered one of the smartest animals in the world. As smart as a primate, like a gorilla or chimpanzee. Crows have been observed creating and using tools which not many animals do.

Researchers have made startling discoveries in recent years about a crow’s ability to communicate, solve problems, remember people, and use tools. What they’re discovering about crow brains is ...