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Animal cognition: crows spontaneously solve a metatool task
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Animal cognition: crows spontaneously solve a metatool task
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A recent study found that tool-manufacturing New Caledonian crows spontaneously solved a metatool task in which the birds used a tool to obtain a second, longer tool that could then be used to obtain food that was otherwise out of reach.
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Spontaneous metatool use by New Caledonian crows.Curr Biol. 2007 Sep 4;17(17):1504-7. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.07.057. Epub 2007 Aug 16. Curr Biol. 2007. PMID: 17702575
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