A new study suggests crows don’t just learn from past interactions—they anticipate future outcomes. In experiments, the birds selected tools without immediate rewards, indicating planning and complex decision-making. The findings challenge older ideas that intelligence depends mainly on brain size, and place crows’ problem-solving abilities alongside those of primates.
In British Columbia, a female gray wolf was filmed dragging an underwater crab trap onto shore to reach herring bait. Researchers, drawing on Indigenous knowledge, say the behavior could be the first documented tool use by a wild wolf. The finding challenges the long-held view of how much problem-solving and intelligence wolves display in nature.
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