A bird that makes her own tools!

[The Dude]

This is about a small raven that was kept from eating for about 8 hours then placed in an environment where there WAS food,but the only way to get it was to devise a tool to get at the food,which is inside a small bucket with a handle at the bottom of a glass.

Well birds cant make tools ... or can they?

Watch as this Birdie makes beautifull things happen with a piece of wire that was laying around.

I love it :)

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[jbennet]

Birds can use tools

In fact darwin himself noted that birds can use tools. He studied the Woodpecker Finch while he was in the Galapagos Islands. The Woodpecker Finch uses a cactus spine or wooden splinter to get insects out of holes

[GrimJack]

Fish use tools, too. There is a fish that hides from predator birds by swimming upside down, holding a leaf with its fins.

[jbennet]

how does the fish know when the bird is coming because fish cant see up due to the way the light is reflected and the way thier eyes are positioned

[Ancient Dragon]

Maybe that's why fish swim upside down :)

[GrimJack]

The fish is found in Ujung Kulon - there was a long PBS special on too-using animals, it included mention of the fish. I think it sees the predator birds as silhouettes - they laughingly thought that the next evolutionary step is for the bird to realize the leaf is floating up-stream and look for the fish beneath it.