Mary Bates, PhD

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New Tool Use in a Bird

Photo: Hector Bottai, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC-BY-SA-3.0 license. Under the right environmental conditions, and with a little innovation, great antshrikes prove they're capable of cognitively flexibe tool use. Tool-use is a new behavior for this species - they're using anvils to crack open the shells of invasive land snails.Read my latest Zoologic post: Faced With Invasive Snail, A Bird Learns to Use Tools.