What Are Crows Truely Intelligent

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Crows are surprisingly intelligent… to the point where it becomes scary. These animals have amazing memory! It has been proven that they can remember human fances with extreme detail. A group of scientists put masks on and tagged the birds. Later when wearing the masks around campus, these crows would dive bomb the human’s with that “face”. This action is thought to be a punishment for tagging them. Crows also posses the ability to conspire with one another. In the same experiment, other crows had started attacking the mask because the first crows had “told” them to. They also can build efficient tools to reach food and water. They also have adaptive behavior and the ability to plan for later.

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