University of Tübingen researchers have shown that crows, when confronted with a visual choice, make a decision twice as fast ...

To find out, Nieder and his colleague Philipp Schmidbauer put two carrion crows through the same task the monkeys faced, ...

Carrion crows made decisions about their visual environments significantly faster than humans and primates tend to, according ...

New research in the journal Science finds that crows turn visual information into decisions twice as fast as humans and primates. They also process information is quite similarly to humans.

As a child, Andrea Townsend loved feeding her backyard sparrows and chickadees, but she wondered if it was good for them. Townsend is now an ornithologist at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Crows have a sense of geometric intuition much like our own, a new study reveals. They can detect the 'odd one out' in a set of ...

From deterrents to yard changes, these expert-backed tips can help make your outdoor space less appealing to crows—without putting them at risk.

Crows are arguably among the smartest creatures on the planet, possessing some cognitive abilities that rival those of 5- to 7-year-old human children. Now, a new study adds basic geometry to the list ...

[Joshua Klein] is intrigued by crows, and in particular, their intelligence. He’s devised a system that may be able to train wild crows into performing useful tasks, such as exchanging lost coins for ...

Not many animals have the capacity to plan ahead, but the New Caledonian Crow is one of them. These birds were observed to keep a tool handy for later use, a degree of advance planning on the level of ...