Researchers from the Universities of Oxford and Exeter have used CSI-style analysis to reveal the huge benefits conferred on New Caledonian crows through tool use. Their results give hard evidence of the huge evolutionary ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 16, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study using motion sensitive video cameras has revealed how New Caledonian crows use tools in the wild, Oxford University scientists report.
Plants & Animals
Jan 11, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Crows that are the product of incest are more susceptible to diseases, according to a new Cornell study published online this month in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Plants & Animals
Mar 25, 2009
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It's no secret corvids are endowed with remarkable cognitive abilities.
Plants & Animals
Sep 14, 2023
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Researchers at Hokkaido University have revealed the effects of high pathogenicity avian influenza virus infection on an Ezo red fox and a Japanese raccoon dog, linking their infection to a recorded die-off of crows.
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Bloody hell! That cockatoo just opened my bin, and it's eating my leftover pizza. We can't have that, I'll put a rock on the lid to stop it opening the bin. Problem solved…?
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Sep 17, 2022
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West Nile virus may no longer be a death sentence to crows. In a new study from the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, wildlife experts describe successfully treating and releasing five American crows infected ...
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Jun 22, 2022
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A new study has found that crows living in large social groups are healthier than crows that have fewer social interactions.
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Nov 14, 2019
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Animals that do well in urban areas tend to be the ones that learn to make use of resources such as the food humans throw away. But is our food actually good for them? A new study published in The Condor: Ornithological Applications ...
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For more than 2 million years, the native forests on the South Pacific islands of Guam and Rota were home to several thousand crows, members of a species found nowhere else on Earth. But over the last 60 years, the Mariana ...
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