Around the question

Who (really) are crows?

Audio 48:30

The crow, a cultural history.

© Editions du Seuil

By: Caroline Lachowsky

Long hated, sometimes venerated, these so-called bad omen birds turn out to be as (or even more) intelligent than the great apes.

Are the crows overshadowing us?

(Rebroadcast 27/10/2021).

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Let's take a look at a funny bird, unloved, too often demonized.

The crow, because it is about him, would he overshadow us?

The question is open in view of recent discoveries on its intelligence, its memory and its fascinating cognitive abilities which make it the equal of the great apes.

How to change the way you look at these birds?

With 

historian for his new book

published in Seuil and ethologist, animal behavior specialist 

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