... Brain size Cognition Corvus moneduloides Mesopallium New Caledonian crow Striatopallidal complex Tool making Tool use Higher cognitive abilities have been linked to increased brain size in mammals. These superior abilities are reflected in different domains such as tool use [Reader...

... with the taxonomic distribution of tool use, as well as interspecific differences in learning. Some features of cognition have thus evolved in a remarkably similar way in primates and at least six phyletically-independent avian lineages. In birds, innovation rate is associated with the ability of species to deal...