Love of fast food has led intelligent crows to fashion elaborate hook tools from bendy twigs, a study has shown. Famously clever New Caledonian crows are known for their ability to winkle beetle grubs ...

A captive Hawaiian crow (‘Alalā) using a stick tool to extract food from a wooden log- representational image Ken Bohn / San Diego Zoo Global Crows have the mental capacity to craft hooks out of ...

Scientists have discovered how New Caledonian crows craft one of their most sophisticated tools yet - sticks with neatly-shaped hooked tips to snag insets. Adult crows, which are expected to have the ...

They are the craftiest of crows, known for their ability to adapt twigs into tools to help them eke out tasty morsels. Now biologists have revealed why New Caledonian crows go to such an extent to ...

The tail-mounted cameras capture the view from beneath each crow's belly (footage: J Troscianko, C Rutz) Ecologists have used a tail-mounted "crow cam" to catch wild New Caledonian crows in the act of ...

Crows are well known for their clever tricks but now they have been caught on camera making and using hook like tools. Ecologists fitted special tiny tail cameras that can see beneath the birds' ...