Crow smarts inside the brain of the world's brightest bird
It's no longer an insult to be called "bird-brained." Scientists have discovered the New Caledonian crows deserve a spot alongside dolphins, monkeys, and chimpanzees in the ranks of super-smart animals. Yet even within this elite crowd, New Caledonian crows are special. These birds not only use tool...
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Boston ; New York :
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
[2016]
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| Series: | Scientists in the field.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Crow smarts : |b inside the brain of the world's brightest bird / |c by Pamela S. Turner ; photographs by Andy Comins ; with art by Guido De Filippo. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Is a crow smarter than a second-grader? -- Little feather -- Tooling around -- Snip, rip, snip -- Metatools and wind tricks -- Homecoming. | |
| 520 | |a It's no longer an insult to be called "bird-brained." Scientists have discovered the New Caledonian crows deserve a spot alongside dolphins, monkeys, and chimpanzees in the ranks of super-smart animals. Yet even within this elite crowd, New Caledonian crows are special. These birds not only use tools, but manufacture a whole crow toolkit. And their puzzle-solving abilities invite the question: Is a crow smarter than a second-grader? Join the crow scientist team as they investigate the mysteries of crow smarts. | ||
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