Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 11:20:25 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Wilkerson, Jordan T." Subject: CNN article: Crow shows she's no bird-brain Comments: To: "VA-BIRD (E-mail)" Comments: cc: "karen.salvini@noaa.gov" , "Lynn Burroughs & Michael Graham (E-mail 2)" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" We all know crows are smart; now someone is trying to measure it... http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/08/09/crow.betty/index.html OXFORD, England -- Oxford scientists have discovered that a crow called Betty is no bird-brain. Betty astonished scientists by deliberately bending a straight wire into a hook and using it to extract food from a container, the journal Science said on Friday. The feat, it is said, makes her the first animal other than a human that has shown a clear understanding of cause and effect, and fashioned a tool for a specific task using new materials not encountered in the wild. Not even chimpanzees, our closest cousins, have this ability. Jordan Wilkerson Cloverly, MD Montgomery County jordan.wilkerson@jhuapl.edu jandk@jordanandkaren.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================