STORY OF THE WISE CROW, SCIENCE ALSO SAYS IT IS AN INTELLIGENT BIRD
During our childhood, we have all read the story of the wise crow in our text books. The thirsty one who found some water in a pitcher but its level was too low for him to drink with ease.
Not the one to give up, the wise crow used his intelligence, collected pebbles and threw the same in to the pitcher, thus forcing the water level to come up and he was able to quench his thirst. Nice moral story indeed.
But now science too says that the crows brain can solve human problems. This is all over internet.
Looks like, story tellers of homegrown tales narrated in "Panchtantra" knew it well, all along.
For example, the crows might have to choose two same-sized circles rather than two different-sized circles when the sample displayed two same-sized squares.
What surprised the researchers was not only that the crows could correctly perform the relational matches, but that they did so spontaneously, without explicit training.
"That is the crux of the discovery," said corresponding author of the study, who is said to be a psychology professor at one University in USA. Crows have the brain power to solve higher-order, relational-matching tasks and they can do so spontaneously, the findings showed.
The findings suggest that birds are much smarter than previously thought. "The results shatter the notion that sophisticated forms of cognition can only be found in our 'smart' human species ....
During our childhood, we have all read the story of the wise crow in our text books. The thirsty one who found some water in a pitcher but its level was too low for him to drink with ease.
Not the one to give up, the wise crow used his intelligence, collected pebbles and threw the same in to the pitcher, thus forcing the water level to come up and he was able to quench his thirst. Nice moral story indeed.
But now science too says that the crows brain can solve human problems. This is all over internet.
Looks like, story tellers of homegrown tales narrated in "Panchtantra" knew it well, all along.
For example, the crows might have to choose two same-sized circles rather than two different-sized circles when the sample displayed two same-sized squares.
What surprised the researchers was not only that the crows could correctly perform the relational matches, but that they did so spontaneously, without explicit training.
"That is the crux of the discovery," said corresponding author of the study, who is said to be a psychology professor at one University in USA. Crows have the brain power to solve higher-order, relational-matching tasks and they can do so spontaneously, the findings showed.
The findings suggest that birds are much smarter than previously thought. "The results shatter the notion that sophisticated forms of cognition can only be found in our 'smart' human species ....
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