Consistent individual differences in behaviour, or 'personality', are likely to be influenced by development, social context, and species ecology, though few comparative, longitudinal studies exist. Here, we investigated the role of development and social context on personality variation in two identically reared, social corvids: common ravens and carrion crows. We repeatedly presented subjects...

Kin-based cooperative breeding, where grown offspring delay natal dispersal and help their parents to rear new young, has a long history in some avian lineages. Family formation and helping behaviour in extant populations may therefore simply represent the retention of ancestral features, tolerated under current conditions, rather than a current adaptive process driven by environmental factors....

JAMES F. Crow, professor emeritus of genetics, died peacefully in his sleep of congestive heart failure in Madison, Wisconsin, on January 4, 2012, 2 weeks before his 96th birthday. A leading figure in 20th century genetics whose career spanned 72 years, Crow was renowned as teacher, mentor, colleague, research scientist, textbook author, academic administrator, scientific leader, genetics histo...

’The fox and the crow’ is an old Greek fable. There are two characters, where both have a different behavior, which is caused by a different way of thinking. This article is about the different possibilities of reasoning. Some of them seem cleverer than others, but this depends highly on the circumstances. There is also a difference between a pure theoretical concept, where the characters are v...

This is a Crow-English dictionary with an English-Crow reference key. It contains over 500 distinct entries, each with its person and plural fo~s when these are irregular, part-of-speech designation, English translation with additional notes on its meaning, analysis and additional notes, and finally sentences that illustrate their use. The entries were chosen purposefully in order to illustrate...

richard wright’s introductory essay to his collection of short stories uncle tom's children describes hidden forms of resistance against jim crowism and uncle tomism. the essay entitled the ethics of living jim crow: an autobiographical sketch relates wright’s daily confrontations with jim crowism with a particular emphasis on his evasive actions, and his covert activities, such as silence, pla...