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Originally Posted by tompe
I have to read the article of the experiment you are referring to to answer this in a good way. But from your description it seems that learned behavior would explain the observation.
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I have not found the article in question - need to ask my sis about it - but it was not learned "automatic" behaviour. The crow reacted to the (known) presence or absence of other crows. The original paper used this example to tell that crows could (to a certain degree) form abstract knowledge or think "from the position of another crow".
Apart from that it was only meant as a reaction to
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Only a human could take in a situation, come up with a reaction, and then analyze that reaction before acting on it. Everything else can only analyze (if they analyze at all) the incoming stimulus that results from their reaction, whether good or bad.
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And this crow is thinking about a situation prior to doing something - whether this is learned behaviour (which btw would speak volumes PRO crow intelligence) or not is not important (for this part).
In fact, it would be even more astounding if the crow was able to learn a behaviour as complex as this without specific training for it.