Natural History Wanderings

Crows aren’t the only birds that use tools. Science Daily reported on a University of Oxford that found:

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.

Read about the study at Cockatoos go to carpentry school — ScienceDaily.