http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2011/08/29/do-tools-make-you-smart/ A Bird Blog with Kate St. John Sat, 25 May 2013 03:00:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2011/08/29/do-tools-make-you-smart/comment-page-1/#comment-15671 Peter Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:11:51 +0000 http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/?p=39321#comment-15671 I don’t know if it counts as a tool, but maybe a toy? Came across this video of a crow using a lid to snowboard on a rooftop! http://youtu.be/3dWw9GLcOeA

]]> http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2011/08/29/do-tools-make-you-smart/comment-page-1/#comment-14324 John English Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:08:24 +0000 http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/?p=39321#comment-14324 As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve seen them caching food (DeKay’s snake) for later use. So there must be considerable brain power there if they can remember where they cached food in a rather featureless lawn. After seeing this, I’ll never call anyone a bird brain again

]]> http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2011/08/29/do-tools-make-you-smart/comment-page-1/#comment-14320 Josh Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:03:20 +0000 http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/?p=39321#comment-14320 lol, that’s really cool. I knew that some birds used tools, but I didn’t know that this one poked grubs until they got mad enough to bite their twig. I guess its a lot faster to learn how to use a twig than to use a twig than to wait for your descendant’s beaks to turn into one through random mutations.

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