Jul 27, 2021 · Using a taxonomic method called DNA barcoding, researchers have identified, from just a few recovered tool specimens, the plant species New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides) use for crafting their elaborate hooked stick tools.

Sep 23, 2024 · The most notable New Caledonian Crow, a bird known as Betty, became famous in 2002 as the first animal shown to be able to create a hooked tool by bending a pliable material.

Jun 29, 2018 · New Caledonian crows have been observed making tools in the wild - in particular, hooked and barbed tools that can fish out delicious food from hard-to-reach places. But exactly how they learn tool designs - and how to modify and optimise them - hasn't exactly been clear.

wild New Caledonian crow holding a hooked stick tool. Credit: James J. H. St Clair. team of researchers from the U.K., Australia and France has used genetic barcoding to determine the tree...

Oct 25, 2018 · As Victoria Gill reports for BBC News, researchers from the University of Oxford and Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Ornithology have recorded video footage of New Caledonian crows assembling...

Sep 24, 2018 · New Caledonian crows are renowned for their ability to make and use a variety of tool designs to winkle out prey from hiding places [1] (Figure 1 A). These designs vary considerably in shape, size and overall complexity, with …

Jan 22, 2018 · A University of St Andrews-led study shows that New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides) acquire hidden food several times faster when using hooked rather than basic (non-hooked) tools, regardless of tool material, prey type and extraction context.

Jul 13, 2021 · A team of researchers from the U.K., Australia and France has used genetic barcoding to determine the tree favored by groups of New Caledonian crows to make their tools. They published their ...

Mar 9, 2016 · Our findings indicate that the New Caledonian crow’s innovative bill has been adapted for tool manipulation to at least some degree. Early increased sophistication of tools may require the...

Jan 1, 2008 · New Caledonian crows holding wide pandanus tools. (a) The free-living male holding a folded tool. The location of the leaf-edge barbs (indicated by the arrow tips) confirms that the tool...