American Crows Learn About Dangerous Humans--from Each Other

Researchers have long known that species in the Corvidae family (including crows, ravens, rooks, jackdaws, jays, magpies, treepies, choughs, and nutcrackers) are uncommonly intelligent--not just by avian standards, but also relative to other smart animals such as many primates. The exact nature and extent of that intelligence is being revealed by a steady stream of studies covering a variety of behaviors ranging from communication to tool use to learning. One of the most recent examples of this work was recently published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, where scientists from the University of Washington described experiments performed on American crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos) living in Washington state.  read more

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