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Cool Stuff Daily

Crows Can Count!

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, Society & Culture, Science, News

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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PopSci: Crows can ‘count’ similarly to toddlers, according to new study Contact the show: coolsuffdailypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Happy Monday and welcome back to another edition of Cool Stuff Daily. My name's Marcus Paff.

0:58.3

On today's episode, did you ever think you'd see the day where birds could count?

1:02.4

Well, apparently that day has already come and gone. We just didn't realize it.

1:06.5

A popular science story has the details coming up, starting right now.

1:11.6

Today's story once again comes to us from Popular Science.

1:15.1

And for more stories like this, of course, be sure to check out their website, popsi.com.

1:20.5

That's p-op-s-C-I.com.

1:23.3

This particular story is courtesy of Lauren Leffler, and it was actually published back in

1:28.1

2024, but when I came upon it, it was just too good not to share even here today.

1:33.7

Before toddlers learned a master symbolic counting, where the word one stands for a single

1:39.5

object and two indicates double that, they passed through a developmental stage of verbal tallying.

1:46.3

Asked how many apples are in a group of three, a young child might say,

1:50.6

1-1-1, or 1-2-3, or Apple, Apple, in a form of proto-counting.

1:57.1

They understand that there are three apples, but they don't quite yet have the ability to express that number in the abstract form of three alone.

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