Don't call me birdbrained.

Australasian Business Intelligence, June, 2007

Byline: Joanna Dally

Jun 27, 2007 (New Scientist - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Research into the corvid family of birds, which includes crows, challenges the view that only great apes have complex social intelligence. Several of the 120-odd species of corvid have been known to make tools. Researchers including Nicky Clayton, of Cambridge University, studied food-hiding and stealing among one species, the scrub-jay. They found that the birds would re-hide cached food that had been hidden in the presence of a prospective thief, and that they appeared to be aware of the visual perspective of other birds. One of the researchers says the cognitive similarities may justify crows being seen as "feathered apes".

Publication Date: 23 June 2007

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