New Caledonian Crows Teach Tool Use By Taking Children To 'School'

Crows Teach Tool Use By Taking Children To 'School'

Young New Caledonian crows learn to use tools by going to "tool-school", where they can observe their parents at work.

These crows are renowned for their extraordinary intelligence and ability to fashion tools to solve problems.

Now a new study has revealed more about how they do it: wild New Caledonian crows live in unusually small family groups, scientists say.

That allows parent birds to take juveniles to tool-using sites, and let young birds play with "grown up" tools.

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