{"fact":"Crows, like some primates, can plan for the future, going beyond simply reacting to their current needs.  They've demonstrated the ability to cache food based on what they anticipate wanting later, even overcoming their immediate desires.","context":"Scrub jays show the ability to plan spontaneously for the future in a way that is not dependent on motivational states... they can do so for two independent future motivational states.","source":"Luigi Baciadonna; Francesca M. Cornero; Nathan J. Emery; Nicola S. Clayton, Convergent evolution of complex cognition: Insights from the field of avian cognition into the study of self-awareness, 10.3758/s13420-020-00434-5","index":220}