Crow Makes Tools

In Australia, crows have figured out how to eat Cane Toads, which are a very, very poisonous species of toad. They've learned to avoid the poison glands by first flipping the toad over, THEN attacking the soft underbelly.  Crows are up there with parrots as far as intelligence goes, don't underestimate them.

my friend that was awesome. I have seen them do things with twigs, but bending it on purpose is an entirely different league. thanks for sharing

these crows are from patagonia, in nature they use twigs to fish out grubs from trees

No, they aren't, actually. They are New Caledonian crows. Look it up.

Cool Vid - much like the Raven in England
only nastier,

A Raven *IS* a crow.

he was f****ng trained

Nope. It had never observed the behavior and it repeated it many times. Many crows can use hooks, New Caledonian crows can make hooks.

you try it. what are you going to do, hold the bird and shove a hook in his beak and then force his head over the hole and show it how?

This reminded me of the movie The Birds =/