Crows, rooks and ravens, with Dr Kaeli Swift
Instant Genius
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Are New Caledonian Crows Really Bad at the Mirror Test?
Common magpies pass the mirror test, but jackdaws don't. New caledonian crows can look in a mirror and understand that the food right here is behind them, it's not in front of them. And yet they don't exhibit any of the what are called self rected behaviors which we look for when we put a dolphin in front of a mirror to clean itself.
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