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Carrion crows can learn precise tool use

Animal training can teach carrion crows to use a stick tool to retrieve food. With increasing practice, they not only demonstrate great skill and achieve their objective in a few steps, they also ...
Ars Technica

For crows, a little tool use goes a long way

A study of New Caledonian crows, which use sticks to fish beetle larvae out of tree trunks, shows exactly how advantageous tool use can be for animals. "Evolutionarily, animals that use tools have an ...
Mental Floss

Tool-Using Hawaiian Crows Join Bird Version of MENSA

As recently as 60 years ago, we humans believed we were the only animals on Earth that could use tools. That impression was proved wrong in 1960 when famed primatologist Jane Goodall observed ...

Researchers trained 8 crows to use a vending machine, then removed the model they had been copying; 6 of 8 succeeded, suggesting crows can rely on memory alone

A groundbreaking study reveals how wild crows can remember and recreate tool sizes from memory, showcasing their cognitive ...
Reuters

Endangered Hawaiian crow shows a knack for tool use

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 ...