11-26-2022, 08:14 AM
This is a fascinating article about the intelligence of Crows, particularly with a certain skill previously thought to be only within human abilities.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/artic...ely-human/
This, is the skill of "recursion". (no, I hadn't heard of that before either!) It is an ability to embed structures inside other similar structures.
Such as this for example: { ( ) }
This is an important part of language and sentence structure.
Crows are better at this than trained Monkeys, and Crows produce the same results as Human children.
Apparently, this is a new finding and rather a revelation.
But when I thought about it, and thought about the intricate and well engineered nests Crows (and all birds) have to build, I can imagine they would need to use that skill. And most likely other skills we have yet to discover that they know, such as principles of engineering.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/artic...ely-human/
This, is the skill of "recursion". (no, I hadn't heard of that before either!) It is an ability to embed structures inside other similar structures.
Such as this for example: { ( ) }
This is an important part of language and sentence structure.
Crows are better at this than trained Monkeys, and Crows produce the same results as Human children.
Apparently, this is a new finding and rather a revelation.
But when I thought about it, and thought about the intricate and well engineered nests Crows (and all birds) have to build, I can imagine they would need to use that skill. And most likely other skills we have yet to discover that they know, such as principles of engineering.
