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Are Crows more intelligent than Chimps, it seems they are capable of making tools. have a look.
TVgeek said:I've seen crows work in pairs, as well. One will hold open the plastic lid of the garbage can, while the other pecks the trash out.
People always wonder why I haven't eaten pork in anyp.younger said:Do you have to keep talking about how clever pigs are? I've got pork chops for dinner tomorrow.
beakboo said:Oll- domestic cats?? Surely not? What are your sources here, I'm intrigued.
Evilsprout said:Begs the question why would pigs evolve such high intelligence? The only thing I can think of is truffle-detection!
Tattoo Ted said:I remember reading somewhere in theories about human evolution, that somehow tool-using stimulated certain areas of the human brain, that when stimulated, led to homo sapiens being able to think in certain ways that differentiated them from their non-tool-using ancestors. I can't remember the whole of the theory, but the short version is that tool using increased intelligence, which led to more complex tool-using, which led to further increased intelligence, and pretty soon we're all driving internal-combustion machines and typing away at our keyboards.
Rick S. said:A schoolmate who shot crows told me that in order to shoot crows from a blind, three shooters must enter the blind, then two of them must leave. Crows can only count to two, and when the lookout crow sees two people leave the blind, he will assume it is empty and the crows will come within range of the gunner.
Seagulls already have the bomb - and very nasty it is...Chriswsm said:In a decade of two they will have their own Physicists and a few decades after that... the bomb. :eek!!!!:
Evilsprout said:Begs the question why would pigs evolve such high intelligence? The only thing I can think of is truffle-detection!
St.Clair said:Also, and again it certainly is'nt relevant to crows, Blackbirds are classed as immitator birds and have been known to imitate its fellow tweeters. A blackbird can sound like so many different birds that it is difficult to conduct a proper survey based on sound alone. Recently, as I'm sure you will know, they have been found to immitate mobile phones and car alarms.