Tool-Making Crows

Name: Tool-Making Crows
Uploaded: 2006-09-09T01:30:30Z
Duration: 41 s
Channel: quisling76
Description: 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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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.

HN links it as the clearest demonstration that crows can fashion tools.

Animals & nature Consciousness & cognition #crows #toolmaking #animalcognition #newcaledoniancrow #experiment

3 comments from Hacker News

@abruzzi2016 · in “When a crow dies, the other crows investigate the cause of death (2015)”

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: ▶ this video

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@quadrangle2015 · in “A girl who gets gifts from birds”

bullshit. Perhaps you don't understand that crows use tools. ▶ this 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.

Tool-Making Crows

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3 comments from Hacker News

Crow uses a vending machine #3 “Crow box” “Crowkit.com"

Wild crows inhabiting the city use it to their advantage - David Attenborough - BBC wildlife

Causal understanding of water displacement by a crow

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Attenborough: the amazing Lyre Bird sings like a chainsaw! Now in high quality | BBC Earth

Amazing! Bird Sounds From The Lyre Bird - David Attenborough - BBC Wildlife

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