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Tool-Making Crows

Why it was recommended

A crow, given food in a thin cylinder and a piece of wire, bends the wire into a hook and pulls the food out.

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What it covers

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. It is for a general viewer who does not plan to take a prerequisite first.

Video details

Channel
quisling76
Length
41 sec
Year
2006
Open on YouTube

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