Bird Brains - The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays Condition:Like New at a time when economic

at a time when economic performance rather than military might will be the index of national strength

and organizational capital

Theo Decker

affecting us all

Bird Brains - The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays Condition:Like New at a time when economicBirds have long been viewed as the archetypal featherbrainsbeautiful but dumb. But according to naturalist Candace Savage, bird brain, as a pejorative expression, should be rendered obsolete by new research on the family of corvids: crows and their close relations. The ancients who regarded these remarkable birds as oracles, bringers of wisdom, or agents of vengeance were on the right track, for corvids appear to have powers of abstraction, memory,