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In this excerpt of ‘The Genius of Birds,’ Jennifer Ackerman charts out how the connectivity maps of bird brains are not too different from our own. This excerpt is part of our summer Book Club ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In 2014 video emerged of a New Caledonian crow being set an eight-stage technical challenge, each part of which required it not just to ...

If people were to divide the animal world into the smart and the not-so-smart, we might put birds squarely in the "dim bulb" category. For decades, people have written off birds as largely witless, ...

It's not just that some birds can use tools, as primates can. Their smarts stretch even further: New research this week suggests that New Caledonian crows can solve a three-step problem, in which the ...