We’re getting murdered — by a bunch of crows.
Put to a test designed to gauge good decision-making skills, the feathered fauna raced past humans, scientists said.
These birdbrainiacs move “in the fast lane,” study co-author Andreas Nieder, an animal physiologist at the University of Tübingen in Germany, told the Transmitter , Smithsonian reported.
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A crow pecks at a screen during an experiment to gauge its decision-making skills. University of Tübingen
It’s no secret that members of the corvid family — comprised of jays, ravens, jackdaws and more — possess remarkable caw-gnitive abilities.
In the past, ravens have been observed planning for the future , while carrion crows have been known to use tools with remarkable precision.
What’s surprising is that in some instances, their mental prowess could exceed our own.
To determine just how smart crows are, Nieder and his colleague Philipp Schmidbauer subjected two male carrion crows named Iggy and Lenny to a special screen test.
They sat in front of a touch monitor displaying a cluster of dots, some of which moved either left or right while other decoy dots shifted randomly to distract them, a statement released by the university expl...