{"id":1079,"date":"2003-07-22T14:33:13","date_gmt":"2003-07-22T18:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2003\/07\/22\/\/"},"modified":"2003-07-22T14:33:13","modified_gmt":"2003-07-22T18:33:13","slug":"1079","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2003\/07\/1079\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/feature\/data\/crow\/\" rel=\"external\"><strong>Tool making crow<\/strong><\/a><br \/>In the Brevia section of the 9 August 2002 issue of Science, Weir et al. report a remarkable observation: The toolmaking behavior of New Caledonian crows. In the experiments, a captive female crow, confronted with a task that required a curved tool (retrieving a food-containing bucket from a vertical pipe), spontaneously bent a piece of straight wire into a hooked shape &#8212; and then repeated the behavior in nine out of ten subsequent trials.<br \/><em>(spotted on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.milkandcookies.com\/\" rel=\"external\">milkandcookies<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dont believe it? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/feature\/data\/crow\/weirmovie.mov\" rel=\"external\">Watch the movie<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Crows are clever. They make great pets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tool making crowIn the Brevia section of the 9 August 2002 issue of Science, Weir et al. report a remarkable observation: The toolmaking behavior of New Caledonian crows. In the experiments, a captive female crow, confronted with a task that required a curved tool (retrieving a food-containing bucket from a vertical pipe), spontaneously bent a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}