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Biology

How Do Animals Use Tools in Their Daily Lives?

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The New Caledonian crow is so adept at crafting hooked tools from leaves and twigs that it can create a tool to retrieve food from a platform, outsmarting many primates in cognitive tests.

Why this is interesting

You might think tool use is a uniquely human skill—but what if the crow outside your window is using a twig to pry a beetle from a crevice, or the sea otter floating on its back is cracking open a clam with a rock balanced on its belly?