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Cockatoo tool use

Wild cockatoos make "cutlery" tools from tree branches

2 September 2021

These wild Goffin’s cockatoos whittle tree branches into utensils that they use to open and dig into tropical fruit pits

Puzzle-solving great apes: The shared abilities underpinning language

Puzzle-solving great apes: The shared abilities underpinning language

19 July 2021

The evolutionary origins of speech may be glimpsed in the tool-using abilities of great apes.

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