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Tool-Making Crows
About this video
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.
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HN links it as the clearest demonstration that crows can fashion tools.
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From the Hacker News discussion
Similar: [VIDEO] A crow, given food in a thin cylinder and a piece of wire, bends the wire into a hook and pulls the food out.
Read original comment ↗bullshit. Perhaps you don't understand that crows use tools. [VIDEO] and that they also are social and communicate with each other. They do give gifts to each other as part of courtship. We don't need to anthropomorphize to recognize plain facts about crows being intelligent and intentional and social.
Read original comment ↗This is not nearly as complex a sequence, but has a bit of tool making. Specifically, bending a wire into a hook to retrieve food: [VIDEO]
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