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New Caledonian crows use and make tools.

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New Caledonian crows use twigs and leaves to extract insects from logs. In the laboratory, they have been able to shape wires into hooks to retrieve food, demonstrating a tool-making ability very rare in the animal kingdom.

Source: Journal of Experimental Biology

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