“Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans” by John Marzluff and Tony Angell (Atria,$15). New in paperback: Marzluff, a renowned corvid expert and ...

“There were three ravens sat on a tree, they were as black as they could be. … Then one of them said to his make, where should we our breakfast take?” That’s a ballad I often enjoy singing, from ...

In studies of avian intelligence, the corvid family — crows, ravens and jays — routinely top the charts of our continent’s most clever birds. In my last column, I wrote about scrub-jays, the champions ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Are crows among the smartest animals of all? Many scientists think that corvids - the family of birds that includes crows, ravens, rooks ...

The idea that "the brain is bigger in intelligence is the higher intelligence" was the common belief among biologists, but the latest research suggests that crows of smaller brains than primates are ...

More than 30 million crows fly around the U.S., but the black birds may be among the least understood animals in the country. Now, new research is providing insight into their soaring intelligence and ...

Researchers have long suspected that corvids - the family of birds including ravens, crows and magpies - are highly intelligent. Researchers have long suspected that corvids - the family of birds ...