Who Knew Crows Were This Smart!

As many of you know Dolphins, Chimps and (from my last post) Parrots. Many animals are very intelligent we just may not know it. But very recently the researchers at oxford university and university of Auckland  have found that the New Caledonian Crow is actually very smart. Most of us think that bird are stupid but we are very wrong.

The researchers at Oxford university and university of Auckland have been studying these intelligent bird for 7 years. They have just recently found that these birds are very resourceful in building their nests. One of the test that the researches ran that amazed them entirely is that:

They put a piece of meat in a little tree trunk

Then  put a little short stick that couldn't reach the meat right in front of the bird

next they put a longer stick in a cage that could easily reach the meat.

To their amaze the bird intelligently took the short stick and wobbled over to the cage and used the short stick to get the long stick and later went up to the little tree trunk and dragged the meat out with the big stick!! Amazing what animals can do!!

If that isn't impressive enough list to this. This species of crow isn't the only "smarty" the Tel Avivs hooded crows have found out how to catch fish with bread crumbs. They do it by getting some bread crumbs scatter them into a pond snatch the unsuspecting rising fish. This to me is the most impressive. These fish have learn't to not only get their own fish but also they have lean't to bait. 

Here are some videos to see these wonderful creatures in action!!

By Meera Dolasia on 09/18/2011

Re-Written by Sofia Infante
http://www.dogonews.com/2011/9/19/who-knew-crows-were-this-smart