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Crow Intelligence
Crow searching food from punctured garbage bag
Crow searching food from punctured garbage bag
As a group, the crows show remarkable examples of intelligence,
and Aesop's fable of The Crow and the Pitcher shows that humans have long viewed the crow as an intelligent animal. They top the
avian IQ scale. Crows and ravens often score very highly on intelligence tests. Crows in the northwestern U.S. (a blend of Corvus
brachyrhynchos and Corvus caurinus) show modest linguistic capabilities and the ability to relay information over great distances,
live in complex, hierarchic societies involving hundreds of individuals with various "occupations", and have an intense rivalry with the
area's less socially advanced ravens. One species, the New Caledonian Crow, has recently been intensively studied because of
its ability to manufacture and use its own tools in the day-to-day search for food, including dropping seeds into a heavy trafficked
street and waiting for a car to crush it open[4]. Wild hooded crows in Israel have learned to use bread crumbs for bait-fishing. Crows will
engage in a kind of mid-air jousting, or air-"chicken" to establish pecking order.
Article Source: Wikipedia.
  
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