Event 304 • Friday 3 June 2011, 2.30pm • Venue: Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage
Crows are as smart as apes. They manufacture tools, they are socially sophisticated, and they plan where to cache tomorrow’s breakfast. These findings have led to a re-evaluation of avian cognition, and resulted in a theory that intelligence evolved independently in apes and crows.
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