Causal understanding of water displacement by a crow

Why HN readers recommended it

Used as vivid evidence of crow intelligence and animal physical reasoning in discussions of cognition.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

PLOS Media

Topic

crow intelligence

Format

demo

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

11

Recommendation years in dataset

2015–2023

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From the original HN conversations

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• The reasoning ability and executive function of birds, crows in particular, is astonishing. Intelligence (certain kinds, at least) may be just as reliant on brain:body mass ratio as it is on overall brain size and complexity. [LINK] [VIDEO]

• Crows are astoundingly intelligent. If you're having a slow day, a quick youtube of "crows solving puzzles" yields some great videos of them solving complicated tasks like water displacement to reach food[0]. I believe raccoons share this achievement. Additionally, there was a thread on here …

• This video is a startling verification.of the crows mental capabilities. “Causal understanding of water displacement by a crow” [VIDEO]