Two crows outperformed humans and monkeys in a psychology task
Researchers from the University of Tübingen demonstrated that carrion crows (Corvus corone) excel in decision-making tasks compared to humans and primates. The findings were published in Science.
- Field
- the brain and neuroscience
- What they did
- Two neurobiologists from the University of Tübingen conducted an experiment where two carrion crows outperformed humans and monkeys in a classic psychology task.
- Why it matters
- The study aims to understand how birds with fundamentally different brains from ours can achieve such intellectual feats.
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