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New Caledonian crows craft and use compound tools in the wild
Crows fashion hooked twigs and barbed leaves to extract grubs from wood.
New Caledonian crows display sophisticated reasoning by shaping plant materials into precise tools to probe tree bark for larvae. Laboratory experiments show they can solve multi-step puzzle boxes and pass tool design techniques down through social learning across generations.
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