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[barbara chambers <bj.chambers@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 8/9/02 11:20 AM, Wilkerson, Jordan T. at Jordan.Wilkerson@xxxxxxxxxx
wrote:

Ravens also use tools, and fashion them if need be.  All Corvids are the
brainiest of birds I think. Read Bernd Heindrich's books on the Ravens.  He
did the first study of these corvids.

Barbara Chambers

> 
> 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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