Foraging for fat: Crafty crows use tools to fish for nutritious morsels
Thursday, September 16, 2010 - 13:42
in Biology & Nature
Researchers from the Universities of Oxford and Exeter have used CSI-style analysis to reveal the huge benefits conferred on New Caledonian crows through tool use. Their results give hard evidence of the huge evolutionary advantage that can be gained by tool use -- giving an insight into the importance of tool use in survival.