Crows vs. Ravens
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers
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How Crows Demonstrate Certain Types of Intelligence Differentiating From Ravens
Scientists are trying to identify features that imply a level of executive function and cognition in crows. This separates it out from instinctive trial and error or other forms of behavior that require a very simplistic mechanism, he says. The goal when we ask questions about how smart is a crow is tried to tease out like, is this a sophisticated outcome that's guided by a really simplistic mechanism? Or is this sophisticated complex thinking that's producing a complex outcome? Okay. And so we have what we call our cognitive toolkit that guides us in understanding that. So causal reasoning, cognition, flexibility, imagination is another really important one. That's something we take for granted because it's such an essential part
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