#corvid intelligence

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Do you have any studies you can recommend about crow intelligence and possible sapience? It’s a very interesting topic and I’d love to read more about it !!

Corvid Technologies: How Do New Caledonian Crows Get Their Tool Designs?

Recent research shows that New Caledonian crows can incorporate information from researcher-made objects into objects they subsequently manu

Inside the corvid brain—probing the physiology of cognition in crows

A wealth of behavioral data show that songbirds of the corvid family are endowed with exquisite cognitive capabilities. The neurophysiologic

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.560669/full

https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/wcs.1286

Abstract rule neurons in the endbrain support intelligent behaviour in corvid songbirds - Nature Communications

The corvid songbird family comprises crows, jays, magpies and other close relatives. Veit and Nieder investigate neuronal processing underly

Rooks Use Stones to Raise the Water Level to Reach a Floating Worm

In Aesop's fable “The Crow and the Pitcher,” a thirsty crow uses stones to raise the level of water in a pitcher and quench its thirst. A nu

There are more, but these are some of the best ones

[hasfeelings]

Scientists Thought Ravens Followed Wolves for Food. They Were Wrong. Ravens Predict Them

New GPS tracking suggests ravens navigate Yellowstone using a mental map of wolf kills.

[deshima]

It always amazes me how intelligent and human-like corvids can be. This cheeky little bugger was strutting around on our balcony, probably looking if he could snatch something from our trashcan ( which we keep outside to avoid getting fruitflies). As soon as I looked up from the stove and looked at him, he fluttered up and landed on the railing, trying to look as if he hadn't planned anything of the sort. As if he knew that trashcan diving is something humans don't approve of and that as soon as I saw him, I would be keeping an eye on him to ensure he wouldn't do it. Just like a little kid wanting to do something Mommy and Daddy forbade, but wanting to try it anyway until Mommy wised up.

[hasfeelings]

For the first time, research reveals crows use statistical logic

The birds can associate images with distinct reward probabilities.

[hasfeelings]

Crows Perform Yet Another Skill Once Thought Distinctively Human

Scientists demonstrate that crows are capable of recursion—a key feature in grammar. Not everyone is convinced

Crows are some of the smartest creatures in the animal kingdom. They are capable of making rule-guided decisions and of creating and using tools. They also appear to show an innate sense of what numbers are. Researchers now report that these clever birds are able to understand recursion—the process of embedding structures in other, similar structures—which was long thought to be a uniquely human ability.

Recursion is a key feature of language. It enables us to build elaborate sentences from simple ones. Take the sentence “The mouse the cat chased ran.” Here the clause “the cat chased” is enclosed within the clause “the mouse ran.” For decades, psychologists thought that recursion was a trait of humans alone. Some considered it the key feature that set human language apart from other forms of communication between animals. But questions about that assumption persisted. “There’s always been interest in whether or not nonhuman animals can also grasp recursive sequences,” says Diana Liao, a postdoctoral researcher at the lab of Andreas Nieder, a professor of animal physiology at the University of Tübingen in Germany.

[ladyhedoniste]

I just saw a crow open up a paperback novel and inspect the first page. As soon as it saw me it hopped away, as if it was embarrassed or something. No, that wasn’t a dream I had, it happened the second I left my comic book store. Weirdest thing I’ve ever seen.

[magpiespotting-blog]

[magpiespotting-blog]

New Caledonian crows use tools to investigate unfamiliar and potentially dangerous objects, according to scientists.