The crows got smarter

The online edition of "View" with reference to the authoritative scientific information resource "Science" told about the work of German scientists from the University of Tübingen. By the way, if anyone has forgotten: the city of Tübingen - we will sister Petrozavodsk. Since 2022, our twinning ties have been suspended, but not terminated.

So scientists at this scientific institution are studying crows.

The researchers found that these birds “are able to make decisions based on visual information twice as fast as humans and monkeys.”.

German professors took at random two ordinary black crows, planted them in front of a monitor screen and let clearly visible dots on this monitor.

According to Science, the birds had to determine where most of them were going – left or right – and bite the appropriate target. In this task, the crows were twice as smart as humans and monkeys: they were quicker to determine the direction of movement of points, maintaining high accuracy of answers.

Scientists noticed that even if the direction of movement was difficult to catch, the crows still did it quickly. And when they did, the crows did, the scientists followed their brains. The neurons in the crows' brains were working at crazy speed!

Where the crows have such abilities - scientists can not yet explain. Especially since these birds in the brain do not have the cerebral cortex, as we have. And the brain works faster!

The only thing that comes to mind of researchers is that such talents were formed in crows in the course of evolution and they are also helped by unusually sharp vision.

But it's still a guess.

And the mystery of crow talents remains without a clear answer.

In Karelia, it is time to feed the birds.