- clever New Caledonian crows have been known to make tools during laboratory experiments since a decade ago but they have finally been caught on the wild in video, scientist always wondered how they do it

- two biologists in the United Kingdom devised a way to capture the crows while they manufacture tools in the wild on camera by attaching two tiny cameras to the birds tail feathers and it worked

- video footage of the crow in action

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A-ghJ2HWm0

- the crows were caught on film making and using a hook-shaped tool to pull grubs, insects, larvae, and other tasty morsels from crevices in logs and from beneath leaf litter

http://wtexas.com/content/5274-new-caledonian-crows-captured-making-and-using-tools-biologists

Planet of the Crows? It's happening. o.O

I've seen crows cross the street at appropriate times. I wonder how intelligent their evolution can make them?

I'm afraid they might be faking their lack of inteligence in front of us.

Love how at 5:10, the crow sets aside the stick after extracting the larva.

Yeah, he's like "I need to hold on to this cuz it's important"

This birds are smarter than I thought:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X5BuK84Adk

...Soon...

I wonder to what extent their sentience goes.

On an unrelated note, I wonder how smart dinosaurs were I mean they were around much longer than us and any evidence of their intelligence would have been erased by now -think there was ever a dinosaur that was at a similar level of intelligence of that of a human?

StarOcean said: I wonder to what extent their sentience goes. On an unrelated note, I wonder how smart dinosaurs were I mean they were around much longer than us and any evidence of their intelligence would have been erased by now

That note is actually not so unrelated: birds descended from dinosaurs so here we have a dinosaur we call a crow being pretty smart.

We've never found fossilized tools or cave paintings from millions of years ago so I'm going to say no. Plus, they didn't have thumbs like we do.

Some time ago there was Barney though.

Yeah, just watched that one: just added https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89C5gsdaSXg to my 'watch later' list.