Carrion crows can learn precise tool use

Carrion crows can learn precise tool use

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 respond flexibly to varying conditions in the experiment. These were the findings from behavioral experiments with tame birds by Dr. Felix Moll, Julius Würzler and Professor Andreas Nieder from the Institute for Neurobiology at the University of Tübinge…