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Intelligence Assessed Through Modern Experiments
Recent studies have focused on proving crows' advanced cognitive skills through experimental setups designed to assess memory, counting abilities, and even the grasp of statistical reasoning. In one study, crows played a number-guessing game that required them to count dots on a screen—a task they executed successfully, far beyond simple recognition.
Additionally, researchers found that crows engage in grammatical recursion, a skill previously credited solely to humans. Experiments featuring sequences of brackets demonstrated that crows could recognize and construct recursive phrases, reflecting an advanced understanding of complex language structures.