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Researchers banned pencils from a lab just to see what these rare crows would do next

Researchers Banned Pencils From a Lab Just to See What These Rare Crows Would Do Next ...
Phys.org

Carrion crows can learn precise tool use

Animal training can teach carrion crows to use a stick tool to retrieve food. With increasing practice, they not only demonstrate great skill and achieve their objective in a few steps, they also ...
Ars Technica

For crows, a little tool use goes a long way

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 ...
Napa Valley Register

These crows almost went extinct before scientists discovered they can use tools

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: ...