“A thirsty crow wanted water from a pitcher, so he filled it with pebbles to raise the water level to drink,” summarizes a famous Aesop Fable. While this tale is thousands of years old, animal ...

The New Caledonian crow has surprised English researchers with its tool-making skills. The birds are already known for their tool-making behaviour in the wild. However, Professor Alex Kacelnik and his ...

LITTLE ROCK — Aesop was quite the fableteller, but was he a student of bird behavior as well? A study in Current Biology suggests he might have been. Christopher Bird (his real name) of the University ...