crow
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It was only when samples arrived at the biomedical research laboratory in the capital Kinshasa -- nearly 1,800 kilometres away as the crow flies -- that the Ebola outbreak was confirmed.
From Barron's • May 24, 2026
Both species make tools for foraging—the crow makes 15 separate ones—but chimps also use tools to scratch or clean their bodies and to threaten others.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
When a crow sometimes consciously detects a stimulus and sometimes does not, specific nerve cells respond in line with that internal experience.
From Science Daily • Dec. 15, 2025
He knows it but he's got far too much savvy to crow about it.
From BBC • Oct. 26, 2025
The crow was sitting on the fence, pecking ineffectively at the string with his bill, cawing softly to himself, a miserable sound.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
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