Crows take a look in the mirror
One question in an animal cognition is whether animals other than humans have the ability to recognise themselves. A classic way of testing this, established in 1970 by Gordon Gallup, is the ‘mirror test’. At first glance this might seem a rather straightforward test: get an animal to look in the mirror and see whether [...]
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Snowboarding Crows: The Plot Thickens
January 16th, 2012 |
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On Friday, I quickly posted this video, which shows a crow – likely a hooded crow (thanks to a commenter at Andrew Revkin’s Dot Earth blog for the ID) – appearing to “snowboard” down the roof of a Russian building, using a small object as a makeshift snowboard. Over at The Atlantic, Alexis Madrigal also [...]
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Friday Fun: Snowboarding Crow [video]
January 13th, 2012 |
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This video (via Al Dove on twitter), which appears to be from Russia, shows a crow (can anybody confirm the identity of the bird?) engaging in an activity that can only be described as play. There is at least some scientific evidence (behind a paywall) that corvids, as well as some species of parrots and [...]
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