New Caledonian crows smart enough to plan three steps ahead to solve tricky problem
- Written by Alex Taylor, Senior Lecturer, University of Auckland
More than 620 million years of evolution separate crows from humans, but the birds show that they can plan three steps ahead.Romana Gruber, CC BY-ND
My ideas about animal behaviour were turned upside down in 2002 when I watched Betty, a New Caledonian crow, fashion a hook from a piece of wire and use it to pull a small container with meat from a...
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