New Caledonian crows are famous for their ability to craft sticks into hooked tools, which they use to probe for larvae and insects hidden in trees. But why they do this has been anyone’s guess — ...

Researchers have documented wild crows creating and using hooked tools. While experiments in controlled settings have shown that New Caledonian crows, widely considered as one of the most intelligent ...

The crows of New Caledonia—a French territory in the South Pacific—are famous for their use of tools. Over the last decade, scientists have recorded the birds fashioning twigs into skewer-like ...

Biologists have discovered how New Caledonian crows make one of their most sophisticated tool designs -- sticks with a neatly shaped hooked tip. New Caledonian crows are the only species besides ...

Scientists have been given an extraordinary glimpse into how wild New Caledonian crows make and use 'hooked stick tools' to hunt for insect prey. Biologists have captured first recordings documenting ...

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