Subscribe to the Nautilus newsletter for captivating science and culture content. Crows and ravens are known for their intelligence and quirky behaviors, including holding grudges, doing statistics, and even hosting funerals. Hooded crows have recently shown the ability to create mental templates, a skill previously thought to be unique to humans, enabling them to reproduce objects from memory. This discovery suggests that the ability to learn in this way may be more common among bird species than we originally assumed. Understanding how corvids use mental templates sheds light on intelligence across the animal kingdom.
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