species exhibiting intelligent behavior. Beavers, for example, build a
dam of ideal hydrodynamic size to stem the current; termites can
build huge nests with special ventilation channels; and honeybees
can build combs based on apparent knowledge of geometry and
mathematics. Although they do perform such complex behaviors,
all these creatures—especially the insects—have very small brains.
A final example of this miraculous behavior is provided by a
crow named Betty, which was studied in the laboratory of Oxford
University. Without any guidance, Betty bent a piece of wire she
found in the laboratory into a shape that she could use as a tool.
When she could not reach food at the bottom of a container with her
beak, the crow bent the end of a piece of wire into a hook. With the
use of the wire, she was then able to get her food out of the contain-
er easily. What amazed the scientists was that Betty understood that
something she had seen before only in the mesh of a cage would be
useful, thanks to its size and flexibility. She also succeeded in bend-
ing the flexible wire in a way that suited her purpose. Wanting to es-
tablish whether or not Betty's success was a coincidence, scientists
noted that she succeeded nine out of ten times.
Scientists pointed out that despite her small brain, Betty had
demonstrated a higher level of intelligence than chimpanzees. The
BBC, with its Darwinist prejudices, commented, “Betty is putting
our closest cousins to shame.”
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In other words, Betty had turned
upside down the evolutionists’ accepted ideas on the root of intelli-
gence. Alex Kacelnik, a scientist from Oxford who conducted re-
search on Betty, made this comment:
We assume primates will be cleverer because they are clos-
est to us… But this animal (Betty) seems to be on a par at
