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A captive-bred Goffin's cockatoo has surprised researchers by spontaneously making and using "tools" to reach food...The team believe Figaro's feat is the first recorded instance of tool-making among parrots. The study, published in the journal
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The latest human-like ability from the animal world is being displayed by a cockatoo in Vienna, who is the first member of the parrot family to exhibit tool-making ability. In his aviary at Vienna University, Figaro has been observed fashioning
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Crows living in a controlled environment have shown that they possess a sophisticated form of reasoning believed to be a hallmark of humanity alone, Wired writes: A type of sophisticated thinking known as causal reasoning [is] inferring that
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Researchers have found that crows were more likely to forage when they could attribute changes in their environment due to human presence. According to a study, this behaviour may suggest complex cognition.
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Crow intelligence Researchers are finding that crows use complex reasoning -- and tools -- to obtain food A New Caledonian crow, Corvus moneduloides , fashions tools out of sticks and other materials in order to "fish" for food. Image: Gavin Hunt /
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Jun 10, 2011 Scientists have been testing out the problem solving skills of members of two of the smartest bird familiescrows and parrotswith fascinating results. Researchers at the University of Vienna in conjunction with the University of Oxford
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Eiichi Izawa of Keio University in Tokyo calls them "feathered primates." In Japanese folklore they are the origin of the forest demons known as karasu tengu...Few animals are as ubiquitous in modern Japan as the crow there are an estimated 20,000 to
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Crows are very clever, the smartest among birds when it comes to using tools, in fact. So, how do they become so proficient in designing and perfecting their fly catchers? By going to "tool school" set up by their parents, unveils surprising
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They are the only birds known to craft and use tools in the wild. The discovery that they whittle branches into hooks and tear leaves into barbed probes to extract food from hard-to-reach nooks astounded scientists, who had previously thought that
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In praise of… the New Caledonian crow In 2002 a New Caledonian crow seized a piece of wire and swiftly bent it into a hook to yank a tasty titbit from a glass cylinder Editorial Was there ever such an unruffled problem solver as Corvus moneduloides
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