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Written May 16, 2008 in cultural evolution, new-caledonian-crows, non-human, tool-use
Written March 18, 2008 in linguistics, new-caledonian-crows, phylogenetics, self-improvement
From Ed Boyden’s blog: How to think:
When I applied for my faculty job at the MIT Media Lab, I had to write a teaching statement. One of the things I proposed was to teach a class called “How to Think,” which would focus on how to be creative, thoughtful, and powerful in a world where [...]
Written February 20, 2008 in birds, neuroscience, new-caledonian-crows, non-human, psychology
Long-term readers will know that I’ve got a number of friends working on the wonderfully intelligent New Caledonian Crow. These birds make and use a number of different tools for extracting grubs from logs. You can see my catalogue of posts on these birds here.
Recently, they’ve got a new paper out showing that the brains [...]
Jonah Lehrer in The Boston Globe:
THE NEW CALEDONIAN crow is surprisingly smart about its food. Its favorite insects live in tiny crevices that are too narrow for its beak. So the crow takes a barbed leaf and, using its beak and claws, fashions a primitive hook. It then lowers the hook down into the [...]
Everyone thinks that chimpanzees and other primates are good candidates for finding complex cognitive capabilities in non-human animals. Unfortunately, they’re just not that smart, really. Sure, they can use sticks to fish termites out of holes, however, there’s another animal which can go a bit further.
The New Caledonian Crow (Corvus moneduloides) is known to manufacture [...]
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