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In a remarkable new study, crows demonstrated an intuitive grasp of geometry—identifying irregular shapes without training.

The birds' work involves basically playing computer games that are designed to tease out how much they know about math. For this study, the birds would look at a computer screen and see a group of ...

These crows "are very tame, so they like to work with us," he says. The birds' work involves basically playing computer games ...