Many animals show signs of high intelligence, including strong memory, self-awareness and communication skills.

Now, researchers propose that, unlike humans, New Caledonian crows don’t copy older members of the species to learn their trade but pick up tool making by taking a mental snapshot of the final product ...

Crows can recognize faces, make their own tools, and understand complex subjects — and we're only beginning to understand everything that they can do. Follow BI Video: On Twitter More from ...

New Caledonian crows don’t just rely on individual ingenuity. Their remarkable tool-making traditions endure across generations. Research has shown that juvenile crows learn by observing their ...

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 ...

the crows demonstrate a tool-making, and tool using, capability comparable to Palaeolithic man’s. Dr Gavin Hunt, a New Zealand biologist, spent three years observing the birds. He found that ...

I’m continuing my look at some of the more common critters that we see every day, but rarely give a second thought. I am often asked “What is my favorite bird?” This is like being asked ...

The bird had made a tool and then used it for the purposes of hunting. I was flabbergasted. It turns out that what those strange eyes and beak are for – they've evolved to help these crows make ...