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 ...

An international team of scientists has discovered that the critically endangered Hawaiian crow, also called 'Alalā, is a highly proficient tool user. WSJ's Monika Auger reports. Photo: Lisa Bissi ...

the crows demonstrate a tool-making, and tool using, capability comparable to Palaeolithic man’s. Dr Gavin Hunt, a New Zealand biologist, spent three years observing the birds. He found that ...

Crows from an island in the South Pacific are better than other avian species when it comes to crafting tools. Now, researchers propose that, unlike humans, New Caledonian crows don’t copy older ...

Do dolphins solve problems of great complexity? Do crows use tools? There is no end to the amazement we find in the animal kingdom: from dolphins solving complex problems to crows using tools ...

The crows also make hooked-twig tools for the same use and straight stick tools to poke into downed and rotting logs for wood-boring beetle grubs, which they try to fish or lever out with their tools.