Clever cockatoos bend hooks into straight wire to fish for food

Wed, 13 Sep 2017 22:59:59 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-clever-cockatoos-straight-wire-fish.html

"In the early 2000s the New Caledonian crow Betty in Oxford shocked the
world when she spontaneously bent a hook into a straight piece of wire
while trying to retrieve a small out-off-reach basket with a handle from
a vertical tube."

Birds!  Via rasha kamel.

Cheers,
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