New Caledonian crows are the first vertebrates to be shown definitively to have an instinctive tendency to make and use tools, contend researchers who doubled as bird nannies.
THE NATURAL. A hand-raised young crow uses a twig to poke food out of a slot without ever having seen the trick before.
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