Crows that received food as an effect of pushing a platform with their beak then learned to use other tools, like stones, to move the platform if it was out of reach.

Crows can be observed rooks using stones to replace water in a tube. The birds understand the concept of heavy solid objects sinking and replacing water, raising the water level. This concept is ...

Well stone the crows, rooks prove they are no mere bird brains A FAMOUS Aesop’s fable about a canny crow with a knowledge of physics is more than just folklore, scientists have shown.

Corvus meaning ‘raven’ in Latin and splendens meaning ‘shining’ or ‘brilliance’ — is a fitting name for the strikingly intelligent birds that house crows are. Crows have long captured human ...

The old story of the thirsty crow dropping stones into a pitcher to raise the water level has been told for generations as a ...

NEW Zealand scientists have helped show that some crows are as clever as depicted by the storyteller Aesop in the ancient Greek fable, The Crow and the Pitcher.

Clever crows really can use stones to raise the level of water in a jug - just like in Aesop's fable - scientists at Cambridge have found.

Among birds, crows and ravens (or corvids) are the most intelligent. They have the largest brains for body size; they’re more like primates than birds. In fact, some people call them “flying ...

An endangered crow species from Hawaii that already is extinct in the wild displays remarkable proficiency in using small sticks and other objects to wrangle a meal, joining a small and elite ...

NEW Zealand scientists have helped show that some crows are as clever as depicted by the storyteller Aesop in the ancient Greek fable, The Crow and the Pitcher.

Crows' brainpower may rival that of a seven-year-old child, say scientists whose experiment re-enacted an ancient fable.