Crow smarter Than a First-Grader?

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UCSB researcher shows that New Caledonian crows can perform as well as 7- to 10-year-olds on cause-and-effect water displacement tasks
SOURCE URL: http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2014/014330/smarter-second-grader


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  • Posted by $ MikeMarotta 9 years, 8 months ago
    Blah... blah... blah... Minus 1 from me. Read the entire experiment carefully, Then read the actual procedure. In fact such studies with crows are well known. They can count to seven, have 30 words with three dialects, etc., etc. They remain bird brains because their brains are the size of, well, who knew?, of BIRDS. It is nice. I like crows. I give them props. But the experiment does not prove that crows will get on the right school bus, or, arriving without their homework, will think to blame the dog.
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