Amazing Raven intelligence test - Clever Critters - BBC Animals

Ravens are some of the cleverest animals to exist in the wild. Watch this amazing and complicated test of their intelligence here. Clip taken from BBC animal show Clever Critters, narrated by comedienne Dawn French.

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[luigiperso]

at the end of the video we find out that they were trained. Fuck off

[WhatsHappening783402]

Oh they were Trained to do this..not as compelling now is it?

[dappadandy]

at the end for doing the reward the raven gets the kinder egg toy

[BakjeLeip]

@luigiperso actually, there are a lot of well-documented tests and papers about similar tests without ever being trained.

[shrap8]

they were trained FUCK

[umidontno040394]

@luigiperso training is just learning by being taught. yeah its not as impressive as if they figured it out themselves but, it is still rather impressive. it shows they are intelligent enough to do this.

[Calinn86]

@WhatsHappening783402 there's a suggested video also by bbcworldwide which shows wild ravens in japan dropping nuts on roads for cars to run over and crack them. they also do it on the stripes and wait for the red light for cars to come before they go and eat the bits of cracked nuts, so they don't get run over in the traffic. you tell me that's not clever.. and those are wild ravens without any training by humans

[wizardsbane]

@WhatsHappening783402 Still impressive. Corvidae intelligence is well-documented.

[IceAges14Aces]

There was also a study conducted at University of Oxford where 2 birds got a piece of food out from a tube using a hook-wire in 9 out of 10 trials.

My statistical analysis of this study (z=2.21, p=0.027) indicates "fair evidence" of animal intelligence....

[Wykdwolffie]

Simply Amazing.