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 ...

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 ...

Besides being dark and mysterious, crows are extremely intelligent birds. So smart, in fact, that it might be a little bit ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...