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 ...

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 ...

New Caledonian crows are known for their toolmaking, but Alex Taylor and his colleagues wanted to understand just how advanced they could be. Once, in captivity, when a New Caledonian male crow had ...

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 ...

A crow may not look like an overpowered animal at first, but this video shows why intelligence can completely change the game ...

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: ...

Crows are some of the smartest birds on the planet. They boast great memories, complex social lives, and are extremely opportunistic. One way they take advantage of their surroundings is by using ...