I Also Love Crows

...even the ones having some kind of family argument repeatedly outside my apartment.

Crows are at least as intelligent as the great apes. The corvids (which include ravens, crows, jays, and magpies) have brains that weigh 2% of their body mass, equivalent to humans, and birds have particularly efficient brains because they have to be so light.

They have extended childhoods, staying with their parents for about 4 years (a very long time for a bird). And even after they leave, they come back to visit, a very rare behavior in animals. Crows also form inter-species friendships and have been seen demonstrating inter-species altruism.

Basically, we should watch out; the crows are coming for our status of "most intelligent creature on the planet."

Or maybe it's already too late and we should just be glad we don't directly compete.