The notion that crows and ravens might reward humans who provide them food motivated the title of the book Tony Angell and I recently published (Gifts of the Crow; 2012 Simon and Schuster). When I ...

And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten…” Leviticus 11:13 That passage is refereeing to ravens ...

When we think of intelligence in the animal kingdom, our minds often leap to dolphins, elephants, or even primates. But surprisingly, some of the sharpest minds belong to birds particularly ravens and ...