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09.01.2019

New Caledonian ravens are able to determine the weight of any object by eye.

Ornithologists from universities in Britain, Germany and New Zealand have learned that ravens have the ability to calculate the weight of an object by eye. For everyone, it was believed that the smartest animals are chimpanzees, but scientists have proven that crows are smarter than monkeys. During the experiments, it was proved that crows are able to determine the weight of any object at a distance, whether it is in motion or not. However, monkeys do not have such superpowers, they can only distribute weight, but they were unable to determine by eye which of the objects is heavier.

Ravens have passed two stages of testing. At the first stage, they determined which of the objects was heavier and threw it into the flask, and at the second, they hung the objects in front of the fans, and the crows also determined at a distance which of the objects was heavier. Until today, only humans had such abilities. New Caledonian ravens surprise with their super intelligence. They are even known to be able to create tools, and now this discovery.

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