Crows are special. They make tools from memory, and they even gather around their dead. And the list of what makes them special gets longer every day. Research published on Wednesday in the journal ...

Animal training can teach carrion crows to use a stick tool to retrieve food. With increasing practice, they not only demonstrate great skill and achieve their objective in a few steps, they also ...

A study reveals that New Caledonian crows enjoy using tools to complete tasks. The study also shows the birds experience a mood boost when they get a little handy. Crows: They're just like us. The ...

The research of Alex Taylor is supported by funding from a Royal Society of New Zealand Rutherford Discovery Fellowship and a Prime Minister’s McDiarmid Emerging Scientist Prize University of Auckland ...

New Caledonian crows are a smart, capable species known for their innovative tool-making skills. Mango the crow, who lives at Oxford University, is a member of this species, but he recently did ...

While Eurasian jays and New Caledonian crows can practice delayed gratification by waiting for access to higher-quality food, jays adjust this self-control behavior depending on the social context.

Just like humans, New Caledonian crows are particularly careful when handling their most valuable tools, according to a new study. The research reveals that crows are more likely to store relatively ...

New Caledonian crows craft wooden hook tools and incorporate naturally occurring barbs into the leaf tools that they manufacture. This raises the question as to whether, or to what degree, these birds ...

A charming article in today's New York Times called "Nurturing Nests Lift These Birds to a Higher Perch" begins: "Amid all the psychosocial caterwauling these days over the relative merits of tiger ...

Tool use is so rare in the animal kingdom that it was once believed to be a uniquely human trait. While it is now known that some non-human animal species can use tools for foraging, the rarity of ...

Biologists have discovered why some crows 'craft' elaborate hooked tools out of branched twigs. Biologists at the Universities of St Andrews and Edinburgh have discovered why some crows 'craft' ...