Corvids are exceptionally intelligent.

Some of the tests they have done with ravens and crows are amazing, they have solved tests that previously have only been solvable by urangutans.

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Make sure you watch the vids, and also check the links to the right of the page for more, but they can solve some impressive puzzles including even making tools to get at food.

I love crows and ravens, they are so gothic and sinister, and knowing that they are so highly intelligent is enough to send a chill down you if being watched by them in a graveyard or something.

Not that I hang out in graveyards, I just mean it as an example of an animal being sinister, in a cool way.