Humans value convenient tools more than inconvenient ones, reducing the cost of using and replacing them more often. Studies have shown that this behavior is found not only in humans but also in crows ...

The study shows that New Caledonian crows can work out solutions to complex problems without any help or guidance. The study shows that New Caledonian crows can work out solutions to complex problems ...

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 ...

The issue arises as British researchers report today in the journal Science that tool-wielding New Caledonian crows have more nutritious diets than crows that forage the old-fashioned way. As brains ...

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 ...