Crows know what they know and can ponder the content of their own minds
Whether crows, ravens, and other “corvids” are making multipart tools like hooked sticks to reach grubs, solving geometry puzzles made famous by Aesop, or nudging a clueless hedgehog across a highway before it becomes roadkill, they have long impressed scientists with their intelligence and creativity.
Now Research unveiled that crows know what they know and can ponder the content of their own minds, a manifestation of higher intelligence and analytical thought long believed the sole province of humans and a few other higher mammals.
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Whether crows, ravens, and other “corvids” are making multipart tools like hooked sticks to reach grubs, solving geometry puzzles made famous by Aesop, or nudging a clueless hedgehog across a highway before it becomes roadkill, they have long impressed scientists with their intelligence and creativity.
Now Research unveiled that crows know what they know and can ponder the content of their own minds, a manifestation of higher intelligence and analytical thought long believed the sole province of humans and a few other higher mammals.
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Brainiacs, not birdbrains: Crows possess higher intelligence long thought a primarily human attribute
New research finds that crows can ponder the content of their own minds, a manifestation of higher intelligence long believed the sole province of humans and a few other higher mammals.
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Scientists are trying to understand the limits to the well-established intelligence of crows.
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