Birds have long defied the slur “bird brain.” With their well-developed brains — 6 to 11 times larger than those of like-sized reptiles — birds are capable of learning and mastering complex social ...

"Bird brain" may take on a new meaning, following the discovery that crafty crows can use tools to solve even complex, multi-stage tasks. Researchers from the University of Auckland in New Zealand ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Robyn Williams: Betty the crow caused a sensation around the world four to five years ago when she ...

Usually, birds are limited by the tools they are born with — their beaks, wings and claws. But some birds have learned to make use of other objects to help them hunt or forage. We humans tend to think ...

New Caledonian crows don’t have cell phones, yet, but researchers propose that these birds may ratchet up the sophistication of the tools they do have and pass along the better designs. AVIAN UTENSILS ...

As recently as 60 years ago, we humans believed we were the only animals on Earth that could use tools. That impression was proved wrong in 1960 when famed primatologist Jane Goodall observed ...

Some birds, such as New Caledonian crows, use sticks as tools, and now researchers think they know why: better grub. The discovery helps to explain how and why tool use first evolved, but the answer ...

Researchers have developed a new deep learning AI tool that generates life-like birdsongs to train bird identification tools, helping ecologists to monitor rare species in the wild. Researchers have ...