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See Why Ravens are the Brainiest of Birds (3 videos)
We’ve shown you some amazing videos of smart crows. It turns out ravens are not only bigger, they’re smarter too.
L. Kilham in The American Crow and Common Raven writes, “Ravens are, to enthusiasts like myself, at the top of the avian pyramid in mental attributes.”
Judge for yourself as you see what brainy critters they are in these 3 videos.
Genius Bird
Ornithologist Bernd Heinrich of the University of Vermont devised an experiment to show that ravens have the ability to make logical connections, much like human beings. He dangled food on a long string, something a raven would never encounter in the wild. See how the raven figures out how to get the food.
The next two videos, on pages 2 and 3, show more examples of raven cleverness, as they find creative ways to get food out of a tube. The tube on page 2 is pretty simple; the one on page 3 provides much more of a show.
Photo credit: Kashyap hc
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add your comment »This is great Thank you. Magpies are very smart also.
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They are so smart! I once met a pair at a wildlife sanctuary that used to be pets, and they would mimic the sounds of the video games that their owner used to play. Only one was from that home, so he taught the other how to do it too!
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Wonderful!
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They are very intelligent and I think they are wonderful and often misunderstood. Thanks for this.
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Thanks for sharing.
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Great
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Very smart.
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Very cute, and quite smart.
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Not only are the raven and the whole of the corvidae family very intelligent. The raven also have the most comples voice box and can imitate almost every sound, language, music, you name it.
And they are fantastic parents!
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Birds are so underestimated. I recently had the priviledge of hand rearing and taming an Indian Myna who flew away at 6 months old. I miss that little guy so much but have no doubt he is making it out there being the clever and cheeky bird he is.
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