Using tools in the animal kingdom is a rare ability, something that only a few species have been able to demonstrate. It now seems that another bird is set to join this select few, as the Hawaiian ...

Hawaiian crows, a species extinct in the wild, have demonstrated a remarkable skill that’s exceptionally rare in the animal kingdom: the ability to use tools. The discovery, described in Nature, means ...

New Caledonian crows are the first vertebrates to be shown definitively to have an instinctive tendency to make and use tools, contend researchers who doubled as bird nannies. Two crows hand raised ...

New Caledonian crows, Corvus moneduloides, have unusually stout, blunt, and straight bills. They’re also one of a few species that make and use tools year-round and throughout their entire range.

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In 2013, Christian Rutz travelled to Hawaii, and presented two crows with a log containing several small holes. These had been baited with meat, but were too small and deep for the crows to reach with ...

Sometimes we adapt tools to suit our purposes. Sometimes nature adapts us to suit our tools. For example: ornithologists say the bills of some crows have evolved to help them hold and manipulate their ...

A bird so rare that it is now extinct in the wild has joined a clever animal elite; the Hawaiian crow naturally uses tools to reach food. The bird now joins just one other corvid - the New Caledonian ...

Many animal species use tools, from insects, elephants and sea urchins to apes, badgers and octopuses, but there are only two animals who make hooks to catch food: humans and crows. Why we both do ...

The crow is a very intelligent animal, and it is known that there are individuals who take advantage of tools for dexterity and take food. So, why crows can use tools, why is British scientists ...

Every player drafted in the first round has at least one standout tool. Pete Crow-Armstrong is no different. The Los Angeles area prep is the best defensive outfielder in this year’s high school class ...