Crows really enjoy using tools, researchers find New Caledonian crows may find tool use fun, according to a new study.

British researchers say crows show a skill most mechanics would envy: They can learn to use tools without being taught. Zoologists at the University of Oxford say four New Caledonian crows raised i… ...

Crow image by Tambako the Jaguar, CC BY-ND 2.0 Crows can be a lot like us. They can use tools, they can figure out complex puzzles and they predominantly favour one side over another when using tools.

The New Caledonian crow showcases extraordinary intelligence by using metatools to solve problems, a skill rare in the animal kingdom.

Adding to a sizzling debate among scientists over whether animals can think, an ecologist reported Wednesday that crows on the South Pacific island of New Caledonia routinely fashion leaves and twi… ...

Crows are far from bird-brained and have been shown to use tools to solve complex problems that baffle five-year-old children. Now researchers have revealed that, like humans, the birds store ...

Two species on Earth are known to use hook-shaped tools: humans and New Caledonian crows. And now, for the first time, the people have caught the birds using them on camera. There are crows all ...

The critically endangered Hawaiian crow can use sticks to deftly fish for food that is out of reach, according to a new study. "The Hawaiian crows are incredibly good at using tools," said lead ...

The crows of New Caledonia—a French territory in the South Pacific—are famous for their use of tools. Over the last decade, scientists have recorded the birds fashioning twigs into skewer-like ...

Caledonian crows are renowned for using tools, held in their beaks, to extract prey from their hidey-holes - but they have to put them down to eat, University of St Andrews experts said.

Crows can spontaneously use up to three tools in the correct sequence to achieve a goal, something never before observed in non-human animals without explicit training. Sequential tool use has ...