Crows Are Freakin’ Smart

A few months ago I watched this TED talk on Crows:

Crows are pretty amazing! Here’s more (from the new npr.org site):

Here’s a surprise: Wild crows can recognize individual people. They can pick a person out of a crowd, follow them, and remember them — apparently for years. But people — even people who love crows — usually can’t tell them apart. So what we have for you are two experiments that tell this story

Read the rest here

And here’s a Youtube video of a crow building and using tools:

Pretty amazing birds, those crows!

UPDATE: I can’t believe I forgot this one.

MORE UPDATE: A little Simpsons fun.