Crows Have Human-Like Intelligence, Author Says
John Roach for National Geographic News
June 6, 2006
Crows make tools, play tricks on each other, and caw among kin in a dialect all their own.
These are just some of the signs presented in a recent book that point to an unexpected similarity between the wise birds and humans.
It's the same kind of consonance we find between bats that can fly and birds that can fly and insects that can fly," said Candace Savage, a nature writer based in Saskatoon, Canada.
"Species don't have to be related for there to have been some purpose, some reason, some evolutionary advantage for acquiring shared characteristics," she added. ........
Crows share several hallmarks of higher intelligence with humans, including tool use and sophisticated social behavior, nature writer Candace Savage says in her recent book about the gregarious birds.
Photograph courtesy Peter S. Weber/USGS
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crows are also not the most attractive of birds, but people are ugly by bird standards also.
:-)
--RC of strangeculture.blogspot.com
i think they're attractive in a black shiny sort of way. sure they're not puffins or peacocks or parrots but they have their OWN type of character!
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