Dan Drake 🦆<p>Crows can do geometry!</p><p><a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/04/12/nx-s1-5359438/a-crows-math-skills-include-geometry" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">npr.org/2025/04/12/nx-s1-53594</span><span class="invisible">38/a-crows-math-skills-include-geometry</span></a></p><p>The particular test involved crows identifying a shape that was different from some others -- very reminiscent of the "Which One Doesn't Belong?" book from Talking Math With Your Kids:</p><p><a href="https://talkingmathwithkids.com/wodb-about/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">talkingmathwithkids.com/wodb-a</span><span class="invisible">bout/</span></a></p><p>(Last time I taught linear algebra, I did an assignment like that -- students had to come up with four matrices, and for each one of them, come up with some linear-algebraic way in which that matrix didn't belong with the other four. It was fun.)</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/tmwyk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tmwyk</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/crows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>crows</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/geometry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geometry</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a></p>