Crows are intelligent birds, what can think abstractly

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Crows are intelligent birds, what can think abstractly

In legends, crows are cooperating with the devil, and in real life crows like jackdaws are making people mad, because they are stealing things like keys. Crows and ravens are smart birds, which might even think abstractly. 

Or at least they can make plans for the future, and that thing makes them extremely good objects for researching the advantage of intelligence. At this point, I must say that we shouldn't behave those animals as an object, because all intelligent animals are somehow unpredictable, and during those researchers, the scholars are also researching things like the advantage of personality. 

The thing is that only the animal that has enough space and stimulus is giving the data what researchers can use in the research. The research of intelligence and other things by using the birds is easier than using humans because the advantage of humans is taking so long time.  

And the thing that is seen is that a long childhood has a connection with intelligence. The birds and other animals, what have long childhood are more intelligent than animals, what are elderly fast. A long childhood means that the brains have more time to make synaptic connections without the need to worry about their descendants. 

Training is the synonym for targeted or controlled stimulus, what purpose is to make animal or human things what the trainer wants. And training intelligent animals is a very fascinating thing. 

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/ravens-theory-of-mind

Image: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/07/quoth-the-raven-nevermore/533466/

Training wild animals are an interesting point. 

But when we are thinking about training those animals for finding things like hidden drugs and other things like explosives, bids like crows are excellent operators in that kind of mission. Some training bases the natural behavior of the animal. Birds like jackdaws can find shining things like keys and spools, what they are taking naturally in their nest.

So the nests of those birds are the places, where those things can be found. The authorities can compare the image of the key with the series of locks. The question is why those keys are missing, and what if they are keys of some gun storage, and the missing keys are not reported. 

And the spools of ammunition tell that somebody might train with a gun in unsafe areas. Also, trained animals can carry intelligence equipment to houses and steal things like USB sticks. Those birds are equipped with GPS and camera packs, which are installed on the collar. That kind of thing is interesting. 

https://www.statnews.com/2020/09/24/crows-possess-higher-intelligence-long-thought-primarily-human/