Birds are brilliant animals, and crows are among the most intelligent. They’re often too smart for their own good, and they ...

Credit: Sarah Jelbert/PLOS One/CC BY 4.0 Did that crow just figure out how to get food out of that tube? Yeah, it did. What do you notice about what it did before getting the food? Why did it select ...

Researchers have long thought that songbirds unleash their colorful vocalizations involuntarily in response to activities happening around them, such as food availability, mating opportunities, and ...

(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. Not only can the inquisitive creatures ...

Many people don’t realize it, but animals can be particularly intelligent when it comes to matters of problem-solving. In this video, we see a lone crow’s intellect being put to the test. The bird ...

A mixture of anxiety and excitement coursed through Keanini Aarona in the weeks before five Hawaiian crows, or ʻalalā, were ...

Birds are a barometer of the health of water sources, habitats, and air quality. A notable example is the use of canaries in ...

Scientists have discovered yet another reason to never get on a crow's bad side. According to new research reported by Gizmodo, members of at least one crow species can build tools from memory, rather ...

Crows recently demonstrated an understanding of the concept of zero. It’s only the latest evidence of animals’ talents for numerical abstraction — which may still differ from our own grasp of numbers.