Do Crows Have Counting Abilities?

[henxan]

Loved the one with the crow and the cat :D..

A more daredevil video is this one:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD5bCNvAihU&feature=related"

What if the lioness get hungry? ..

 

[BobG]

This is interesting. It's not just a crow crossing the street. They are using automobiles to crack nuts that they cannot crack themselves. They drop them in crosswalks and when the cars stop at a red light the crows retrieve their nuts. I wonder how long it will be before they realize that pressing the button makes the light turn red.

Crows also have the intelligence to make their own tools. Here is an example of some crow problem solving abilities. It uses an instrument as a tool, and when that tool is insufficient it modifies the design.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03ykewnc0oE&NR=1

Yep, crowbots aren't far behind.

About as long as it takes them to learn how to make a phone call: Bird Brains (somewhere around the middle of the article).

I like how vultures in Zimbabwe obtain food better, though: Mmmm, gazelleburgers!

During the war of liberation in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, a soldier and avid bird watcher observed vultures sitting on barbwire fences next to mine fields waiting for gazelles and other herbivores to wander in and get blown to smithereens.

"It gave them a meal that was already ground up," said Dr Lefebvre.

"The observer mentioned that once in a while a vulture was caught at its own game and got blown up on a mine."

(I wanted to find an article on crow's abilities with numbers, but wouldn't you know it - someone had to call their band "Counting Crows")