Besides being dark and mysterious, crows are extremely intelligent birds. So smart, in fact, that it might be a little bit scary. Even though their brains are the size of a human thumb, their ...

A study of New Caledonian crows, which use sticks to fish beetle larvae out of tree trunks, shows exactly how advantageous tool use can be for animals. "Evolutionarily, animals that use tools have an ...

Do you think animals have some secret intelligence superior to our own? Do dolphins solve problems of great complexity? Do crows use tools? There is no end to the amazement we find in the animal ...