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Uploaded 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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  • TheColdwontrise

    TheColdwontrise 1 year ago

    i for one welcome our new avian overlords.

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  • DragonFlyback256

    DragonFlyback256 1 year ago

    Crow makes a crowbar. xD

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  • DeafDefiler

    DeafDefiler 3 weeks ago

    Avian Crow-verlords

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    in reply to TheColdwontrise (Show the comment)
  • mdr48371

    mdr48371 1 month ago

    Corvids are very smart critters.

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  • LrZeph

    LrZeph 1 month ago

    I do believe you mean Avian Crowverlords.

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  • lethalsub

    lethalsub 3 months ago

    They will pay guano taxes instead.

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  • FartyFace

    FartyFace 4 months ago

    Must have been an asian crow

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  • SiaGrath

    SiaGrath 5 months ago

    They take our jobs and pay nothing in taxes!

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  • Allan Cerf

    Allan Cerf 5 months ago

    reubenbreeden1082 - you're a bird brain yourself.

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  • kaiiana

    kaiiana 6 months ago

    Pretty soon corporations are going to outsource all factory work to crows... :'-(

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