How smart are crows?

[Catherine]

Doing certain tests, crows did better than monkeys. The tests involved shape recognition. Can you recognize the odd shape in a set of the same shape.
Crows did very well even though this was thought to be a human trait. 

[email=https://www.ecoticias.com/en/crows-outperform-monkeys-in-an-intelligence-test-that-until-now-was-believed-to-be-exclusive-to-humans/30337/]https://www.ecoticias.com/en/crows-outperform-monkeys-in-an-intelligence-test-that-until-now-was-believed-to-be-exclusive-to-humans/30337/[/email]

How intelligent are crows? We are not sure yet. Much more testing is needed to really understand. They are definitely smarter than we thought.
We keep thinking certain intelligence traits only belong to humans, but the more we test animals, the more we are prooved wrong.

[LPC]

This might interest you, Catherine:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/crows-a...ools-47665

Also this:

https://earthfireinstitute.org/the-intel...of-magpies

Tobi has a very intelligent crow who visits her regularly. She has posted about it on this forum in the past.

[Catherine]

I remember Koori. I believe he still visits Tobi regularly.

Those are great articles. Thank-you for posting them.
I am familiar with Magpies from the years I lived in Alberta. I knew they are smart, but I think I underestimated them.
Scientists are really starting to look at crows and  the results are surprizing. They clearly have skills beyond what we expected.
They are good at tool making and recognizing people. They are real problem solvers. We just don't know how to test their intelligence.
I think many creatures are smarter than we realize because we have not yet learned how to test intelligence in other species.

There was a big crow in my neighbour's tree when I got home. He was announcing his presence to the whole street.
Now I wonder what he wanted.