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and a team of four of these birds'll have yer keys from the valet before you know your cars' been lifted and your dates' wondering wear her panties went...

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Adding video to channels (Brain, Wings) - requested by ant.

Clever chap!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corvus_%28genus%29#Intelligence

Smart. Magpies are pretty clever too, and I think their plumage is more tuxedo-esque.

"How on Earth did that crow do that?"

What!? you weren't watching it?!?

This is still very impressive, but there's no indication that the crow knew "I need a bigger stick to get this food. There is a bigger stick in that box over there. If I solve that puzzle, I will get the bigger stick to get the food." It could have just known (since it had seen these obstacles before), that if it did all of the things it had done before eventually, somehow, food would be involved.

"Clever girl"

http://youtu.be/TO5wryDdEI0

I think they likely taught it 'untie the stick, get a treat', then 'use the stick to get the stones and get a treat', then 'put 3 stones in the hole and get the treat' and 'use the long stick to get the treat', so when he untied the short stick he just kept doing what he was taught would get the treat until he got it. He didn't need to understand how it worked, only that doing "X" or "Y" or "Z" gets a treat, then it was presented with "X+Y+Z" to get a treat.
I wonder if the bird was getting pissed off that no treat was coming until the last step, it likely expected one at every step.