crow
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It was only when samples arrived at the biomedical research laboratory in the capital Kinshasa -- nearly 1,800 kilometres away as the crow flies -- that the Ebola outbreak was confirmed.
From Barron's • May 24, 2026
If you compare the smartest nonhuman animal, the chimpanzee, to what Mr. Lefebvre regards as the smartest bird, the New Caledonian crow, chimps emerge on top.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
"I truly think it had given up by the time the crow had found it," Claire said.
From BBC • Jan. 28, 2026
When a crow sometimes consciously detects a stimulus and sometimes does not, specific nerve cells respond in line with that internal experience.
From Science Daily • Dec. 15, 2025
Near the fire, on a tree limb fashioned into a crude perch, crouched a heap of shadows which Taran realized was indeed a large crow.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
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