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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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An endangered crow species from Hawaii that already is extinct in the wild displays remarkable proficiency in using small sticks and other objects to wrangle a meal, joining a ...

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 ...

Crows have an unspoken motto: Sticks and stones may break my bones, but they sure can come in handy. Two new studies unveil the ability of at least some crows to use tools in sophisticated ways, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dr Christian Rutz described his realisation that the crows might use tools as a 'eureka moment', A bird so rare that it is now extinct in the wild has joined a clever animal elite - the Hawaiian crow ...

An endangered crow species from Hawaii that already is extinct in the wild displays remarkable proficiency in using small sticks and other objects to wrangle a meal, joining a small and elite group of ...