AmericanPapist Comments
Birds are very intelligent. My Quaker Parrot (I'm still trying to convert him) will uses a plastic spoon to push and pull seeds in the bottom of his cage.
First one looks like a setup. But the second is looks uncannily real.
Monkeys are not the only animals that use tools. In Western Australia, dolphins use sea sponges to protect their noses whilst "nosing" over coral for food. Dogs and cats, pet doors, food dispensers, etc. "...of course!" says any one who has owned a pet for a long time. Birds - even in the wild will use sticks to aggravate ants & then collect them to eat... the list goes on.
Animals are intelligent & usually show that intelligence in the search and collection of food. Still, a long way from... the wheel, forging metal, electricity, heart translplants... etc etc etc
Can't open that nut? Quothe the Raven, "Nevermore."
That's pretty impressive.
In Attenborough's The Life of Birds, his film crew shot birds not only using cars as nutcrackers, but taking advantage of traffic signals to safely eat the fruits of their labors.
I do the same thing with pistachios.
Mmm, pistachios.
First one is an example of very clever editing. It's quite possible that for the "pay-off" shot of the crow eating the opened nut, the film crew simply put the nut there on the street for the crow to go after.
Commenting by HaloScan
