article_snippet: Members of the crow family are known to be among the cleverest of birds, but scientists are finding that Members of the crow family may have intelligence that rivals most mammals and even young children.
article_snippet: An experiment by the University of Cambridge showed that crows can perform task that three and four-year-old children have difficulty with.
article_snippet: Scientists said that, while having very different brain structures, both crows and primates use a combination of mental tools, including imagination and the anticipation of possible future events, to solve similar problems.
article_snippet: Other experiments involving the same family of birds found that Caledonian crows can use up to three tools in sequence to obtain food.
article_snippet: Urban-living carrion crows have been witnessed learning to use road traffic for cracking nuts.
article_snippet: The wild crow learned to use individual props during The wild crow three months of captivity but had to work out the order in which to use The wild crow to complete the challenge and get an inaccessible treat. 
article_snippet: Crows are known to be highly intelligent creatures - capable of solving complex puzzles and problems to obtain food.