Cited on HN 3 times, 2009–2016, never outright recommendedscore 0
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HN links it as the clearest demonstration that crows can fashion tools.
A one-minute clip of the New Caledonian crow Betty bending a straight wire into a hook to retrieve food from a tube. It comes from a 2002 Science study on tool-making in crows.
“A crow, given food in a thin cylinder and a piece of wire, bends the wire into a hook and pulls the food out.” (HN, 2009)
bullshit. Perhaps you don't understand that crows use tools. [this video] and that they also are social and communicate with each other. They do give gifts to each other as part of courtship. We don't need to anthropomorphize to recognize plain facts about crows being intelligent and intentional and social.
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