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Pika et al. conducted the first systematic, quantitative large-scale assessment of physical and social cognitive performance of common ravens ( Corvus corax) with a special focus on development. Image credit: Ralph Capri23auto. “Human children show unique cognitive skills for dealing with the social world but their cognitive performance is paralleled by great apes in many tasks dealing with the physical world,” said lead author Dr. Simone Pika, a researcher at the University of Osnabrück and the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, and colleagues. “Recent studies suggested that members of a songbird family corvids also evolved complex cognitive skills but a detailed understanding of the full scope of their cognition was, until now, not existent.”

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