Are Crows the Ultimate Problem Solvers? | Inside the Animal Mind | BBC Earth

We all know that crows are smarter than the average bird, but will 007 be able to solve the complex puzzle and retrieve his reward?

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[Dialgadude]

"We looked away for a brief minute and turned back to find he used the stones and stick to build a functioning nuclear reactor."

[ZXNWF]

It’s all fun and games until the crow graduates top of your class

[katbird]

That crow deserves a bigger treat, he's earned it

[padmashrishelar]

The saddest part of the story is that after watching this video, my parents started comparing me to that crow.

[pranjalvw]

That was 5 years ago,
Today the crow is cfd propellor designer at NASA

[zyonbariuan]

Me: *sees a crow at the window*

Me: can you do my math homework

[adolforodolfo]

I got to watch a good example of crows' cleverness in my garden yesterday. Our resident crow had found a hunk of bread, but it was stale, rock hard, so he couldn't eat it. To my amazement, he went to the bowl of water that we put out for visiting foxes, cats, etc and dropped the bread into it - then, when it had softened in the water, lifted it out and ate it.

(Edit) Since I posted this, I looked it up on Google and what I saw has been seen many times before.

[MORAMAX]

A friend of mine who is an electronic engineer, for a time worked on a train that checked the state of the tracks. He told me that he found on the iron tracks some nuts, almonds, seeds, perfectly aligned. An older colleague explained to him that they were laid by crows, they used the train as a nutcracker ;-)))

[DraphEnjoyer]

"Now let's see if our fine feathered friend has solved the puzzle"
"Oh dear he has a gun"

[wolfura]

Meanwhile the chicken is contemplating and picking grass sprouts while remembering the good old days he was a Tyrannosaurus.

[varun]

In the beginning he was like...
"Boy I don't know what these stones are, but I'll get them anyway" 😂

[aaapyro]

I once adopted an injured crow last month. I put it in the cage for few days, I put some sunflower seeds and water. I forgot to put some food in a day and I saw some crow giving the injured crow some small fruits and insects. The crow managed to escape by opening the cage door, it is fully healed. Crows are intelligent animal. Some crow are visiting in our window, they put some buttons, keys, stones and etc. I am think it's a gift for me because I helped their friend.

[simoncirkel]

There are people at my school who would have more trouble solving it than a this bird

[Angrykat]

A crow shit on my face one time. He planned it and timed it perfectly. True story

[rachelw]

I love crows. They really are under appreciated, at least here in the States. They’re incredibly intelligent, adorable little creatures!

[generischerkanalname]

The crow getting the stones and not knowing what to use them for at first is even more impressive, because it means it must have understood that that is a series of riddles where one leads to the next. Absolutely fascinating.

[SleekMouse]

2:04  I like how he tried to shortcut it with the short stick first and his face was like, "yeah, didn't really expect that to work."

[unusualbydefault]

fun fact: some asian city had issues with crow nests on electric infrastructure, so they went and destroyed many nests....which prompted the local crow population to just build MORE nests, far in excess to what they actually needed (decoy nests + plenty backup nests). talking about backfiring

[Shiestey]

Someone has probably already mentioned this, but I remember seeing a post years ago where a guy would feed a crow every day and the crow started bringing him money that it would find, whereas the guy would increase the amount of food he gave the crow.. so it eventually learned that different color bills get different rewards, and he had a drawer full of money that his crow friend had brought him. These birds are scary smart lol.

[dwalbert]

We had crows as pets growing up. They were so much fun. They were always up to something and loved hiding shiny objects, would tantalize the cat and dog and fly along with you if you were out for a walk or riding you bike. As proven here, incredibly intelligent too.