This is amazing.

[RebelOne]

If anyone calls you a bird brain, feel flattered. Look at what this bird brain has accomplished.

http://www.sciencemag.org/feature/data/crow/

Watch the video.

[Melodybe]

1. Whoa that is awesome!

I have a degree in anthropology and can say in all honesty animals are MUCH smarter than we give them credit for.

Thanks for posting.

[Ready4Change]

2. That's pretty cool.

It's interesting in that it looks like it started with a wire with a hook, but the hook unbent. The impressive part is that the crow recognized it had lost the hook and that it needed to be re-created.

I can see training a crow to use the hook, and training a crow to make a hook. But training the crow to recognize that it needs a new hook? I'm not sure that's trainable. I think that requires cognition?

[Jokinomx]

3. Thanks for posting ..... I love birds...

I used to have an African Grey Timneh and was amazed at her intelligence.

[Pithlet]

4. I can't get quicktime to download right on my computer

So I can't watch it :( I did read about it, though. That is amazing. Birds are smart.

[Benhurst]

5. I wonder if they could transplant a bird's brain

into Bush.

[Beaverhausen]

6. That was really amazing.

[Threedifferentones]

7. I saw this video on the news a long time ago

and I think its worth noting here that scientists have never found another crow that can do anything like this. Evolution at work?

[AlCzervik]

8. Wow, that is one smart bird!