Tool-Making Crows
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Uploaded by quisling76 on Sep 8, 2006
In the Brevia section of the 9 August 2002 issue of Science, Weir et al. report a remarkable observation: The toolmaking behavior of New Caledonian crows. In the experiments, a captive female crow, confronted with a task that required a curved tool (retrieving a food-containing bucket from a vertical pipe), spontaneously bent a piece of straight wire into a hooked shape -- and then repeated the behavior in nine out of ten subsequent trials.
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So glad I never gave up on loving these beautiful birds
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If we could only get the Greeks to work their food
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Oh no I didn't but thanks.
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Crows are awesome! Click my name to see my babies!
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@LordHannigan didja read the caption? it's a New Caledonian crow.
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If it had used an already-bent piece of wire supplied by the scientists, it wouldn't have been a big deal. That it _created_ the proper tool for the job is the amazing part.
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Crow is a former British people probably.
very elderly.
bad crow.
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I think thats a raven. Though crows are of the same family.
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TheColdwontrise 5 months ago 49
Crow makes a crowbar. xD
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