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 ...

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New Caledonian crows are a smart, capable species known for their innovative tool-making skills. Mango the crow, who lives at Oxford University, is a member of this species, but he recently did ...

New Caledonian crows don’t have cell phones, yet, but researchers propose that these birds may ratchet up the sophistication of the tools they do have and pass along the better designs. AVIAN UTENSILS ...

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 ...

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 ...