In a recent experiment, crows could process and respond to visual cues at twice the speed as humans and monkeys.
Lemmy and Iggy, two carrion crows, are no strangers to a psychology lab. As study participants, they have helped scientists prove that birds can use tools to forage, learn numbers and count objects, and provided other insights into the ways birds think.
Now, they’ve also revealed that birds can make staggeringly quick decisions, besting their human and nonhuman primate counterparts with ease. In new findings published in Science, the crows could process and respond to visual cues at twice the speed as humans and monkeys, quantifying the neural speed of avian decision-making for the first time.
