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[va-bird] CNN article: Crow shows she's no bird-brain
- From: "Wilkerson, Jordan T." <Jordan.Wilkerson@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "MDOsprey (E-mail)" <MDOSPREY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,"VA-BIRD (E-mail)" <va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 11:20:25 -0400
We all know crows are smart; now someone is trying to measure it...
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/08/09/crow.betty/index.html
<http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/08/09/crow.betty/index.html>
OXFORD, England -- Oxford scientists have discovered that a crow called
Betty is no bird-brain.
Betty astonished scientists by deliberately bending a straight wire into a
hook and using it to extract food from a container, the journal Science said
on Friday.
The feat, it is said, makes her the first animal other than a human that has
shown a clear understanding of cause and effect, and fashioned a tool for a
specific task using new materials not encountered in the wild.
Not even chimpanzees, our closest cousins, have this ability.
Jordan Wilkerson
Cloverly, MD
Montgomery County
jordan.wilkerson@xxxxxxxxxx
jandk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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