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ReviewAnimal cognition2025

Dimensions of corvid consciousness.

Walter Veit, Heather Browning, Elias Garcia-Pelegrin, James R Davies, Jamie G DuBois, Nicola S Clayton

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Review in Animal cognition, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Walter VeitUniversity of Reading, Reading, UK. wrwveit@gmail.com.
Heather BrowningUniversity of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
Elias Garcia-PelegrinNational University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
James R DaviesUniversity of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Jamie G DuBoisUniversity of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Nicola S ClaytonUniversity of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Corvids have long been a target of public fascination and of scientific attention, particularly in the study of animal minds. Using Birch et al.'s (2020) 5-dimensional framework for animal consciousness we ask what it is like to be a corvid and propose a speculative but empirically informed answer. We go on to suggest future directions for research on corvid consciousness and how it can inform ethical treatment and animal welfare legislation.

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ConsciousnessCrowsAnimalsAnimal WelfareAnimal cognitionAnimal consciousnessBird consciousnessCorvidsDimensions of consciousness

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PMID40316871
PMCPMC12048460

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