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Thursday, May 28, 2009

Damn Dirty Birds!

Researchers have found that rooks, a member of the crow family, are capable of using and making tools despite not doing so in the wild.

"This finding is remarkable because rooks do not appear to use tools in the wild, yet they rival habitual tools users such as chimpanzees and New Caledonian crows when tested in captivity," said Chris Bird, the lead author of the study.

First rock and sticks, and then it'll be bows and arrows. Before long we'll all be trapped in a net telling a bird to get it's stinking dirty talons off of us.
Posted by Jonathan at 6:34 PM
Labels: science

1 comments:

moon_grrl said...

Reminds me of this article from The Onion.

Oh, shit!

May 29, 2009 6:40 AM

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