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 ...

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 ...

Crows endemic to New Caledonia happen to be extremely smart, proving to be among the most intelligent birds, with scientific research shedding light on their exceptional mental faculties. When we ...

""We observed a new mode of tool use that was not known before. We saw them use tools on the ground, using a little grass stem to poke and fish into nests,"" researcher Christian Rutz of England's ...

New Caledonian crows are known for their toolmaking, but Alex Taylor and his colleagues wanted to understand just how advanced they could be. Once, in captivity, when a New Caledonian male crow had ...

A Hawaiian crow on the edge of extinction has joined the elite group of birds known to use tools. Understanding the Alala crow's newly discovered talent could aid attempts to save the critically ...

Scientists have confirmed that a species of wild crow from New Caledonia in the South Pacific can craft tools. The birds were observed bending twigs into hooks to extract food hidden in wooden logs.