New Caledonian crows are renowned for using different types of tools for extracting prey from tree holes and other hiding places. While they firmly hold their tools in the bill during foraging, they ...

Animal training can teach carrion crows to use a stick tool to retrieve food. With increasing practice, they not only demonstrate great skill and achieve their objective in a few steps, they also ...

A research team at the University of Tübingen demonstrates experimentally how crows learn to dexterously handle a stick with their beak and use it for precise food retrieval Animal training can teach ...