Crows do not just fly around scavenging but they also solve puzzles, make tools, remember faces and pass down knowledge ...

Crows are far from bird-brained and have been shown to use tools to solve complex problems that baffle five-year-old children. Now researchers have revealed that, like humans, the birds store their ...

Corvus splendens — Corvus meaning ‘raven’ in Latin and splendens meaning ‘shining’ or ‘brilliance’ — is a fitting name for the strikingly intelligent birds that house crows are. Crows have long ...

New Caledonian crows can tell how heavy an object is simply by seeing it sway in the wind, researchers have found. The experiment makes crows the first creatures other than humans to have the ability.

Researchers claim they’ve solved the ‘crow funeral’ mystery – with a really creepy experiment. The birds mourn their dead to learn about potential dangers to their own lives. Experts found that crows ...

A crow that astonished the world by bending a straight piece of wire was simply acting out behaviour in her species' natural repertoire, a study has found. Betty bent a straight piece of garden wire ...

In a behavioral experiment crows can learn to produce a set number of calls. This involves them planning in advance: from the sound of the first call in a numerical sequence it is possible to predict ...

The birds successfully selected containers containing the highest quantity of food via numbers marked on the lid in a series of experiments conducted by Japanese scientists. The findings suggest that ...

An experiment based on an Aesop's fable has shown how differently children and crows learn about the world. In the story, a thirsty crow drops pebbles into a pitcher of water. Eventually the water ...

Crows have shown that they can assemble tools from two or more components – a feat that was previously believed that only humans and great apes were capable of. A film by scientists from the ...

The crow is putting our closest cousins to shame. Experiments show the humble bird is better than the chimp at toolmaking. British zoologists were astonished when a captive crow called Betty fashioned ...