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Are Crows the Ultimate Problem Solvers? | Inside the Animal Mind | BBC Earth
A BBC Earth clip from Inside the Animal Mind in which a crow named 007 solves an eight-step puzzle to get a reward. It showcases crow problem-solving.
Why HN readers recommended it
Shared in crow-intelligence threads as a striking demonstration that changes how people see crows.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- BBC Earth
- Topic
- animal intelligence
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2017–2021
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I hope that people here will enjoy this amazing video ( [VIDEO] ) as much as I did. I knew that crows are smart, but this is clearly the next level of intelligence ... By the way, I have discovered this video via the relevant …
ablekh on Hacker News · 2017-11
In The Secret Lives of Urban CrowsThis one impressed me so much, I never looked at Crows again the same way: "Are Crows the Ultimate Problem Solvers?" [VIDEO]
belter on Hacker News · 2021-08
In Crows have been shown to understand the concept of zero
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.