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Why Are These Crows So Good With Tools?
Fri, 09/17/2010 - 3:43pm
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New Caledonian crows are among only a handful of species that have been shown to use tools. They use twigs to fish out beetle larvae from dead trees. Reporting in Science, Christian Rutz and colleagues explore why the birds evolved this rare trait.