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Cockatoo uses tool

Postby GreenWing » Sat Dec 29, 2012 9:49 pm

The latest edition of Scientific American has some fascinating info in parrot intelligence: A cockatoo named Figaro created a tools out if bamboo and splinters off a wooden beam to fetch a variety of items, such as a pebble and nuts. Ten times in a row, Figaro was able to use a tool successfully to retrieve a nut! Cool, huh?
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