Raven Intelligence

Common Raven. Yifei He, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

By four months of age, the cognitive performance of ravens in experimental tasks testing their social intelligence and understanding of the physical world parallels that of adult great apes, according to a new study. The results indicate that not only do ravens possess sophisticated cognitive skills, but they also develop these skills rapidly.

Read more about this study at my Animal Minds blog: The Raven: A Birdbrain Nevermore.