{"fact":"Hooded crows, much like their New Caledonian cousins and the surprisingly crafty Goffin's cockatoos, can make objects based on mental templates, showing an ability to recreate from memory rather than trial and error.","context":"Hooded crows, similar to tool-specialized NC crows (Jelbert et al. 2018) and non-tool-specialized Goffin’s cockatoos (Laumer et al. 2021), are able to manufacture objects according to a mental template…despite being rewarded at random and without templates being present at the time of manufacture.","source":"Anna A. Smirnova; Leia R. Bulgakova; Maria A. Cheplakova; Sarah A. Jelbert, Hooded crows (Corvus cornix) manufacture objects relative to a mental template, 10.1007/s10071-024-01874-6","index":311}