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How Smart Are Corvids

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

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The Cognitive Toolkit of Corvid

Do you think part of what perhaps makes Corvid so intelligent? I mean, if you think about what they have to do. Animals can be really good at difficult things like navigating through the three dimensional space of air without necessarily doing a lot of like deep thinking behind it. Think about a pigeon on a sidewalk. They're going around, they're looking at these like micro food beds and just like, boom, boom,. Like I couldn't do that. That's an incredible skill, right? So like we can’t do that. It would feel like the brain would have to then evolve in a different way.

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