New Caledonian crows found able to infer weight of an object by watching how it behaves in the wind
Wednesday, January 9, 2019 - 10:00
in Psychology & Sociology
A team of researchers with members affiliated with the University of Auckland, the University of Cambridge, Bertha von Suttner University and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History has found evidence that suggests New Caledonian crows can infer the weight of an object by watching how it behaves in the wind. In their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the group describes experiments they carried out with crows they captured and what they found.