is really smart: “Betty astonished scientists by deliberately bending a straight wire into a hook and using it to extract food from a container, the journal Science said on Friday. ”
heh. “But Betty’s older male lab-mate Abel had a more direct route of securing his meals — he would snatch the wire or steal the food from Betty.”
so the male theft indicates the crows have made it to Neanderthal level?
eh – i know guys like that. but i have bad taste in men, have i mentioned that?
So which one is smarter, Betty or Abel? I gotta go with Abel on this one.
i disagree with stacey, betty is smarter because she made the tool. while abel only exploited her creative intelligence. without her brains, his muscle would be useless.
now, if betty had ‘communicated’ to able abel exactly how she wanted the wire bent and then gotten him to bend it – well, i suppose the male would say it was his idea.