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Crows Can ‘Count’ Similarly to Toddlers, Demonstrate Numerical Skills Through Controlled Vocalizations

Medicine & Technology May 24, 2024

Researchers report that crows can understand numbers and make sounds corresponding to them. Continue reading the article to learn more.

The Chicks With All of the Tricks—Spatial Strategies & Number Mapping

Feb 01, 2015

When it comes to cognition, there are few answers on the origins of many behaviors. Neurobiology and social anthropology help researchers understand the development of speech, the correlation of objects or words with physical entities, and even the emergence of faiths. However, when it comes to something as simple as a number line, which is virtually a universal means of discerning small numbers from larger numbers, researchers are stumped. And looking to nature for the answer, a new study published this week in the journal Science, discovered just how universal these number lines are.