Crows really enjoy using tools, researchers find New Caledonian crows may find tool use fun, according to a new study.

They build tools, recognize themselves in mirrors, and even seem to understand what others are thinking. Corvids have ...

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. Read the whole story ...

“As shown by the crow species, the New Caledonian crow, which makes and uses probing tools in the wild, crows and other animals may not fully understand what they are doing that solves a problem.” ...

Corvus meaning ‘raven’ in Latin and splendens meaning ‘shining’ or ‘brilliance’ — is a fitting name for the strikingly intelligent birds that house crows are. Crows have long captured human ...

New Caledonian crows have an instinctive ability to make and use tools, British researchers reported in this week's issue of the journal Nature.

When Jane Goodall first encountered chimpanzees using twigs as tools in 1960—something that scientists had assumed only humans could do — she wrote an excited telegram to her colleague Louis ...

Autumn Buck has shared a series of videos showing the crow's story in chronological order and they quickly went viral.

We see them almost every day– on rooftops, in parks, by the roadside, and sometimes even trying to steal a bite from our food ...

By Scottie Andrew, CNN (CNN) — Perhaps “birdbrained” isn’t such an insult after all –– crows, the ubiquitous urban bird, can vocally count up to four, the latest research has found ...