Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The lives of corvid, or the family of birds that include crows, are ...

An amendment to the Nature Protection Act published in this week’s Gibraltar Gazette has given crow species the strictest level of protection available under Gibraltar’s wildlife conservation laws.

For jackdaws—black and gray relatives of crows—family comes first, according to a recent study published last month in Nature Communications. Scientists put these cognitively complex birds to the test ...

Crows, jays, ravens, magpies and their various other relatives (nutcrackers, choughs, jackdaws, etc.) belong to the taxonomic family Corvidae. It’s a sizeable family of about 130 species — a smaller ...

Humans tend to think that we are the most intelligent life-forms on Earth, and that we’re largely followed by our close relatives such as chimps and gorillas. But there are some areas of cognition in ...