[Link] Crows Perform Yet Another Skill Once Thought Distinctively Human

Read: 23/11/2022 www.scientificamerican.com

Crows are some of the smartest creatures in the animal kingdom. They are capable of making rule-guided decisions and of creating and using tools. They also appear to show an innate sense of what numbers are.

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[Link] Bottles, cans, batteries: octopuses found using litter on seabed

Read: 8/3/2022 www.theguardian.com

Whether it’s mimicking venomous creatures, or shooting jets of water at aquarium light switches to turn them off, octopuses are nothing if not resourceful.

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[Link] Wildlife officers complete two-year quest to remove tyre from elk's neck

Read: 13/10/2021 www.abc.net.au

The elk was first spotted with the tyre more than two years ago, during a wildlife survey. Speaking in 2020 about how the elk may have wound up like that, Mr Murdoch speculated it would have become stuck while the elk was young, before it grew antlers.

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[Link] Scientist Captures First-Ever Footage of a Tortoise Committing Grisly Murder

Read: 23/8/2021 www.vice.com

In a famous Aesop fable, a tortoise beats a hare in a foot race by taking it slow and steady.

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[Link] Why Do Animals Sometimes Kill Their Babies?

Read: 28/6/2021 www.nationalgeographic.com

When Khali, a sloth bear at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C., went into labor in late December last year, her keepers were thrilled. But soon after Khali delivered her first cub, something went wrong.

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