How Crows Use Tools

This episode explores what controlled observations reveal about tool choice, modification and flexible problem-solving. The story keeps the mechanisms clear and the research grounded for a casual listener. Inside this episode: - A specialist among crows - Choosing a functional object - Making and modifying - Reading the hook - Tools for tools Sources include Tool use at natural foraging sites, New Caledonian crows attend to multiple tool properties, and Cognitive processes in sequential tool use. This episode is a researched narrative summary. Historical records may be incomplete, translated differently, or interpreted differently by scholars. We distinguish documented facts, estimates, disputed interpretations, and later stories where material. Corrections are logged and incorporated into future editions. Follow More Than Instinct: Inside Animal Intelligence for more researched stories about the science of animal intelligence.