As regular CFZ-watchers will know, for some time Corinna has been doing a column for Animals & Men and a regular segment on On The Track... particularly about out-of-place birds and rare vagrants. There seem to be more and more bird stories from all over the world hitting the news these days so, to make room for them all - and to give them all equal and worthy coverage - she has set up this new blog to cover all things feathery and Fortean.

Thursday 4 September 2014

Cockatoos go to carpentry school

Date:
Cacatua goffiniana -in tree-6.jpgSeptember 2, 2014
Source:
University of Oxford

Summary:
Goffin's cockatoos can learn how to make and use wooden tools from each other, a new study has found. The discovery is thought to be the first controlled experimental evidence for the social transmission of tool use in any bird species.
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Cockatoos can learn how to make tools from each other, scientists from Oxford University, the University of Vienna, and the Max Planck Institute at Seewiesen, have found. Image: after watching another bird demonstrate Kiwi manufactures a tool. (Photo : A. Auersperg/ Eurekalert )

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