Image courtesy of American Crow - Singing Sands, Bruce Peninsula
National Park, Ontario, Canada -- 2007 June, CC
BY-SA 3.0
Joel Kontinen
A new study has shown
that Carrion crows understand probability, This was a surprise for evolution
believing scientist who say that a bird brain is not an insult but they can
found mathematicians called statistical inference
in them.
Melissa Johnston at the University of Tubingen in Germany and her team trained two carrion crows (Corvus corone) to peck at nine, different-coloured symbols to receive a reward: a small food pellet or worms .they found that the crows understood probability,
But it was God who gave crows such ´prowess,
Source:
Quaglia, Sofia, 2023, Crows can understand
probability like primates do. New Scientist 5 July,
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