New Caledonian crows make a variety of tools in the wild. They will remove leaves and side branches from a twig and use it to gather food, for instance. New experiments show that young hand-raised ...

Wild chimpanzees use tools during some of the most cognitively and physically demanding foraging behaviors observed in non-human animals. While the behavioral changes that occur with aging have been ...

On the south Pacific island of New Caledonia, families of wild crows have developed a tool-making industry. One of their main sources of protein is beetle larvae, which are found in the rotted ...

Scientists confirm that wild crows from New Caledonia in the South Pacific can craft tools.

Scientists confirm that wild crows from New Caledonia in the South Pacific can craft tools.

The 'crafting' of tools involves (i) selection of appropriate raw material, (ii) preparatory trimming and (iii) fine, three-dimensional sculpting. Its evolution is technologically important because it ...

Call it a GoCro. Cameras mounted on the tails of wild New Caledonian crows have caught these renowned tool-makers in the act of creating the hooked foraging implements from plants. New Caledonian ...

For the first time, biologists have documented gorillas in the wild using simple tools, such as poking a stick in a swampy pool of water to check its depth. Until now, scientists had seen gorillas ...

A cockatoo from a species not known to use tools in the wild has been observed spontaneously making and using tools for reaching food and other objects.