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 ...

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 ...

Hawaiian crows are among the world's only birds with an ability to forage for food using tools, scientists have said. While crows are known to be particularly smart, this rare and remarkable behaviour ...

The New Caledonian crow showcases extraordinary intelligence by using metatools to solve problems, a skill rare in the animal kingdom. You don't have to be particularly intelligent to use tools - many ...

A captive Hawaiian crow (‘Alal?) using a stick tool to extract food from a wooden log. The critically endangered Hawaiian crow can use sticks to deftly fish for food that is out of reach, according to ...

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' ...

New Caledonian Crows have shown how they can make tools from two or more composite parts (Alice Auersperg/PA) Clever crows have shown how they can assemble tools from two or more non-functional ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dr Christian Rutz described his realisation that the crows might use tools as a 'eureka moment', A bird so rare that it is now extinct in the wild has joined a clever animal elite - the Hawaiian crow ...

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' ...