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
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