Animal training can teach carrion crows to use a stick tool to retrieve food. With increasing practice, they not only demonstrate great skill and achieve their objective in a few steps, they also ...

New Caledonian crows have given scientists yet another display of their tool-using prowess. Scientists from New Zealand's University of Auckland have found that the birds are able to use three tools ...

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 ...

New Caledonian crows may find tool use fun, according to a new study. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- Getting food is nice. But scoring that food through clever tool use is even ...

CROWS have been observed storing tools they no longer need in case they find a use form them later. A study by scientists at the University of St Andrews looked at the way birds and other animals ...

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' ...

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 ...

A research team at the University of Tübingen demonstrates experimentally how crows learn to dexterously handle a stick with their beak and use it for precise food retrieval Animal training can teach ...