Animal training can teach carrion crows to use a stick tool to retrieve food. With increasing practice, they not only ...

New Caledonian crows may find tool use fun, according to a new study. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- Getting food is nice. But scoring that food through clever tool use is even ...

The super-smart New Caledonian crow tends to tip its head to one particular side when it is wielding tools. Researchers have figured out why. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to ...

British researchers say crows show a skill most mechanics would envy: They can learn to use tools without being taught. Zoologists at the University of Oxford say four New Caledonian crows raised in ...

You don't have to be particularly intelligent to use tools - many animals do so, including some insects. But it takes a uniquely intelligent animal to be able to combine different tools to solve a ...

Crows are far from bird-brained and have been shown to use tools to solve complex problems that baffle five-year-old children. Now researchers have revealed that, like humans, the birds store their ...

A captive Hawaiian crow (‘Alal?) using a stick tool to extract food from a wooden log. The critically endangered Hawaiian crow can use sticks to deftly fish for food that is out of reach, according to ...

Two species on Earth are known to use hook-shaped tools: humans and New Caledonian crows. And now, for the first time, the people have caught the birds using them on camera. There are crows all over ...

Adding to a sizzling debate among scientists over whether animals can think, an ecologist reported Wednesday that crows on the South Pacific island of New Caledonia routinely fashion leaves and twigs ...

New Caledonian crows are more likely to keep their most special tools safe — the ones which are more effective and took time to fashion — a study has determined. Biologists from the University of St ...

Crows can spontaneously use up to three tools in the correct sequence to achieve a goal, something never before observed in non-human animals without explicit training. Sequential tool use has often ...

Using tools in multiple ways, and not just to get food, was once considered a singularly human ability. Then chimpanzees, other primates and elephants proved able. But if flexible tool use wasn’t ...