Taylor, A.H. (2020). Folks physics for crows? Animal Behavior and Cognition, 7(3), 452-456. doi: https://doi.org/10.26451/abc.07.03.11.2020

New Caledonian crows are a key model species for testing whether the ability to reason about unobservable causal mechanisms is unique to humans. Here, I review the growing body of evidence for the absence of this ability in this species.

New Caledonian crows, Folk physics, Causal understanding, Causal reasoning, Convergent evolution