Cleverer than a child of four, the birds who can read your mind

Birds intelligence in fact rivals that of apes who, along with crows, are able to do tasks that three and four-year-old children have difficulty with. The Aesop’s fable experiment was designed to see if corvids,the family of birds that includes crows, jays, ravens and jackdaws, have causal reasoning  the awareness that one event leads to another. According to the results they did and they also showed that they were good tool users. What is amazing about this is that these birds are not natural users of tools in the wild, so this is not a skill that natural selection has crafted over the centuries. Yet another experiment has shown that birds have  what is called ‘theory of mind’  in short, the ability to see the world from another bird’s point of view. All this experiments are showing more and more how these birds can actualy be put on the top of the list when it comes to smart animals.