3. TIL crows in New Caledonia were found to be bending twigs into hooks to extract ...

TIL crows in New Caledonia were found to be bending twigs into hooks to extract food hidden in wooden logs. This confirms that wild birds can make tools.

At the crowbar

"So, got any plans for the holidays?"

"The usual, just getting out for a couple of days, you know, like a midweek or something"

"Going anywhere nice?"

"We haven't made up our superior minds yet but I was thinking Pine Barrens".

"Seems rough this time of year"

"Yeah, but the kids love it, and there's plenty of sticks and stuff there for them to whittle and make tools and all of that".

"Not much grub though".

"No, but that's covered by the Oakhill farm, just a mile south as I fly".

"Oakhill farm? Dude, don't you know yet?"

"Know what? What about it?"

"Oakhill farm is bad man. You as much as ruffle a feather there they put a cap in your ass"

"Bullshit. We went over there two years ago and there at least a dozen of murders camping there for like over a week. Best holiday ever: all in, all you can eat. I didn't have to forage for a fortnight after that. Hell, when we got back, the wife didn't even fit in the nest anymore."

"Dude, are you a dove or what? That was for her!"

"For whom?"

"Don't owl me. Don't you get it? The food, the crowd... It was a burial service for a bird I knew. Sheryl I think it was. Poor chick got caught in a steel wire noose, starved to death, and then nailed to a tree upside down. Horrifying. That place is fucked up man. No one even goes there to shit anymore."

"Oh. Okay. Disneyworld it is then".

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