Crows are special. They make tools from memory, and they even gather around their dead. And the list of what makes them special gets longer every day. Research published on Wednesday in the journal ...

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 are a smart, capable species known for their innovative tool-making skills. Mango the crow, who lives at Oxford University, is a member of this species, but he recently did ...

A charming article in today's New York Times called "Nurturing Nests Lift These Birds to a Higher Perch" begins: "Amid all the psychosocial caterwauling these days over the relative merits of tiger ...

Biologists have discovered why some crows 'craft' elaborate hooked tools out of branched twigs. Biologists at the Universities of St Andrews and Edinburgh have discovered why some crows 'craft' ...

An international team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen, Germany, and the University of Oxford have revealed that New Caledonian crows are able to create tools ...

New Caledonian crows craft wooden hook tools and incorporate naturally occurring barbs into the leaf tools that they manufacture. This raises the question as to whether, or to what degree, these birds ...

New Caledonian crows have demonstrated flexible behaviour when using tools and solving novel problems. However, we do not know whether this flexibility extends to tool manufacture. Here, we show that ...

A study reveals that New Caledonian crows enjoy using tools to complete tasks. The study also shows the birds experience a mood boost when they get a little handy. Crows: They're just like us. The ...

The research of Alex Taylor is supported by funding from a Royal Society of New Zealand Rutherford Discovery Fellowship and a Prime Minister’s McDiarmid Emerging Scientist Prize University of Auckland ...

Tool use is so rare in the animal kingdom that it was once believed to be a uniquely human trait. While it is now known that some non-human animal species can use tools for foraging, the rarity of ...

(Phys.org) —A diverse team of psychology researchers with affiliations in several countries has found that while two year old children are able to produce an effective and novel action after ...