Pitch Black Intelligence

Ravens and their relatives, carrion, hooded and rooks, jackdaws, magpies and jays, are so intelligent that they can sometimes even rival the intelligence of primates. Reichholf's studies on free-living and hand-reared corvids prove that these unloved birds are capable of precisely recognising their animal and human partners as well as all other birds in the flock, punishing unfriendly creatures, deceiving their rivals when hiding carrion, or skilfully keeping wolves at bay. Carrion crows effortlessly find walnuts buried in the ground even months later. In Japan, crows can even be observed placing nuts in front of cars at red traffic lights to have them freshly cracked in the next red phase. Hardly anyone would have attributed such ingenuity to the unloved "black fellow". Does mankind struggle with corvids precisely because of their incredible intelligence? Bestselling author Josef H. Reichholf has found convincing answers to this question as well.

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