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Tool-Making Crows

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Tool-Making Crows

A one-minute clip of the New Caledonian crow Betty bending a straight wire into a hook to retrieve food from a tube. It comes from a 2002 Science study on tool-making in crows.

HN links it as the clearest demonstration that crows can fashion tools.

3 Hacker News mentions · 2009–2016

Topics

  • Animals & nature
  • Consciousness & cognition

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