A study of New Caledonian crows, which use sticks to fish beetle larvae out of tree trunks, shows exactly how advantageous tool use can be for animals. "Evolutionarily, animals that use tools have an ...
Crows endemic to New Caledonia happen to be extremely smart, proving to be among the most intelligent birds, with scientific research shedding light on their exceptional mental faculties. When we ...
Crows are highly intelligent. They can recognize faces, hold grudges, and even recognize cars. Crows cache food, and will move it if another creature sees them hiding it. They use tools, and fashion ...
New Caledonian crows are known for their toolmaking, but Alex Taylor and his colleagues wanted to understand just how advanced they could be. Once, in captivity, when a New Caledonian male crow had ...
When Jane Goodall first encountered chimpanzees using twigs as tools in 1960—something that scientists had assumed only humans could do — she wrote an excited telegram to her colleague Louis Leakey: ...
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