Clever crows really can use stones to raise the level of water in a jug - just like in Aesop's fable - scientists at Cambridge have found.

Crows use tools and can even outsmart a human child, and now scientists have found another way in which the birds are like us. In tests, the birds revealed a tendency to be either left or right beaked ...

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 ...

Crows famous for performing tricks with tools have been filmed in the wild with TV cameras attached to their tail feathers. Oxford scientists have filmed the New Caledonian crows bending lengths of ...

Discover how Aesop's fable The Crow and the Pitcher reflects real-life problem-solving abilities of intelligent birds like rooks. Aesop's fable "The Crow and the Pitcher" has been confirmed in a ...

Researchers found that rooks, members of the crow family, can use stones to raise the level of water in a container - just like the bird in the tale The Crow And The Pitcher. In the story, written ...

Aesop told the fable of a thirsty crow that came upon a nearly empty pitcher of water and discovered that by dropping pebbles in, he could raise the water to a drinkable level. The moral is "Little by ...