Crows that Make Tools: Interesting Thing of the Day

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Crows That Make Tools From The Page: But these crows also make new tools to accomplish specific tasks. It had long been known that New Caledonian crows in the wild made simple tools from leaves and twigs, but they have even figured out how to make tools out of materials they could never... more

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Rated by Ratbags on Jul 30, 7:23am

From the page: "But these crows also make new tools to accomplish specific tasks."
Rated by bec-hi on Jul 29, 11:39pm

stone the crows these birds are smart
Rated by FergusMurray on Jun 23, 3:31am

Another very interesting Interesting Thing of the Day - on tool use and tool creation among crows.
Rated by roslyn217 on Jun 14, 5:37pm

Crows That Make Tools From The Page: But these crows also make new tools to accomplish specific tasks. It had long been known that New Caledonian crows in the wild made simple tools from leaves and twigs, but they have even figured out how to make tools out of materials they could never have encountered before. In one experiment, researchers provided a pair of crows, Betty and Abel, with two pieces of wire--one straight, one hooked. They put some food in a small bucket with a handle and dropped the bucket into a tube, so that the only way to retrieve it would be to pull it out with the hooked wire. After Abel tried and failed, he flew off with the hooked wire, leaving Betty with the straight wire. No problem--she immediately bent it into a hook, pulled out the bucket, and had lunch. The first time I saw a video of this, I was absolutely stunned. It sounds like such a simple task, but it is just not the kind of ability I've ever thought of animals as having--certainly not birds. http://itotd.com/articles/447/crows-that-make-tools/

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