A deadly snake guarding edible treasure presents quite a problem to a hungry crow - most bird-brains would either stay well away or pay the price for venturing too close. However scientists in the ...

A research team at the University of Tübingen demonstrates experimentally how crows learn to dexterously handle a stick with their beak and use it for precise food retrieval Animal training can teach ...

As recently as 60 years ago, we humans believed we were the only animals on Earth that could use tools. That impression was proved wrong in 1960 when famed primatologist Jane Goodall observed ...

During an experiment three years ago, 26 dogs were shown photographs of people in various emotional states. The animals’ heart rates were measured and their responses to the pictures monitored. The ...

Many animals, including crows, chimps, orangutans, and octopuses, have mastered what we once thought was a humans-only trick: using tools. A lot of research on the subject has focused on how animals ...

(Pravda) Tiny video cameras on tail feathers of crows helped researchers discover that the birds use a variety of tools to seek food, and even make their own tools, plucking, smoothing and bending ...

Besides being dark and mysterious, crows are extremely intelligent birds. So smart, in fact, that it might be a little bit scary. Even though their brains are the size of a human thumb, their ...

Do you think animals have some secret intelligence superior to our own? Do dolphins solve problems of great complexity? Do crows use tools? There is no end to the amazement we find in the animal ...

There is a huge variety of bird species in the animal kingdom that are unique and have different abilities, which makes them different from each other. Thus, some of these animals are smart and are ...

Some years ago, a bird researcher visited a famous institute that deals with primate cognition to give a talk. When the director of the institute introduced the bird researcher and his talk, he used ...