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The American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) is a large passerine bird species of the family Corvidae. It is a common bird found throughout much of North America, and it is the only species of bird known to have become sentient following the supercollider accident now known as the Batavia (or Tertiary) Excession.
The American Crow was long considered to be very intelligent. Crows were known to use tools (sticks and hooks) to get food out of tight spaces, and learned to place hard-to-crack nuts on well-trafficked roads, so that the cars would crush the shells. This intelligence has skyrocketed in the years since the Batavia Excession, and today most corvidologists consider crows to be sentient, sapient and self-aware beings, a belief backed up by legislation passed in most major North American nation-states granting the American Crow full responsibilities and protections under the law.
The specific intelligence and sapience of the American Crow is a more social and collaborative intelligence than is seen in other sentient species. Crows have a particular electromagnetic sense that allows for limited non-verbal communication among crows in each other's vicinity. This sense is often referred to as "telepathy", though it does not appear to operate in the way we would normally think of telepathy, and it is certainly more limited that the telepathy seen in cetaceans. It enables crows to have a basic, subconscious knowledge of their neighbors' emotional state, threat level and general health, without communicating specific ideas or concepts.
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Prof. Reinhold Sanger 06:02, 18 August 2012 (PDT)
