As this NeuroPhilosophy post notes, it was long thought that only primates and humans had evolved to learn to use tools to accomplish certain tasks. But as the video shows, a rodent species, degus, learned the use of a rake to get food.
And Birds have been shown to use tools for tasks as varied as
bending a wire into a hook to retrieve food in the lab
And in the wild
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Monday, March 31, 2008
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