Crows Bend Twigs Into Tools to Find Food

October 4, 2007 By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, AP Science Writer
Crows Bend Twigs Into Tools to Find Food (AP)

In this undated photo provided by the journal Science, a wild New Caledonian crow is shown tagged with a video camera. The camera lens is protruding through the central tail feathers. Mounting tiny video cameras to the tail feathers of crows, researchers discovered that the birds use a variety of tools to seek food, and even make their own, plucking, smoothing and even bending twigs and grass stems. (AP Photo/Journal Science, Jolyon Troscianko)

(AP) -- Mounting tiny video cameras to the tail feathers of crows, researchers discovered that the birds use a variety of tools to seek food, and even make their own tools, plucking, smoothing and bending twigs and grass stems.



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