https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cockatoos-tool-kit-national-park
Cockatoos can tell when they need more than one tool
to swipe a snack

Besides chimps, the birds are the only known nonhumans
to use a tool kit

Forget screwdrivers or drills. A stick and a straw make
for a great cockatoo tool kit.

Some Goffin’s cockatoos (Cacatua goffiniana) know
whether they need to have more than one tool in claw to
topple an out-of-reach cashew, researchers report
February 10 in Current Biology. By recognizing that
two items are necessary to access the snack, the birds
join chimpanzees as the only nonhuman animals known to
use tools as a set.
...


This is cute

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cockatoo-open-trash-cans

Human trash can be a cockatoo’s treasure. In Sydney,
the birds have learned how to open garbage bins and
toss trash around in the streets as they hunt for food
scraps. People are now fighting back.
...

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Primum Sapienti wrote:

Cockatoos can tell when they need more than one tool
to swipe a snack

They are proficient stone knappers, fashioning hand axes and
spear points, as well as a variety of perplexing tools which
may be involved in small engine repair.

This absolutely positively proves Out of Africa purity and the
savanna origins of humanity.

Google Cockatoos, btw, see where they're from.

I'll wait.



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somebody:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cockatoos-tool-kit-national-park Cockatoos can tell when they need more than one tool
to swipe a snack
Besides chimps, the birds are the only known nonhumans
to use a tool kit

Free hand hitting of stone-like objects in wild gorillas
Shelly Masi cs 2022 Sci.Rep.12:11981
doi 10.1038/s41598-022-15542-7
The earliest stone tool types (sharp flakes knapped from stone cores) are assumed to have played a crucial role in human cognitive evolution.
Flaked stone tools have been observed to be accidentally produced when wild monkeys use hand-held stones as tools.
Holding a stone core in hand + hitting it with another in the absence of flaking (free hand hitting) has been considered a requirement for producing sharp stone flakes by hitting stone on stone, free hand percussion.
We report on 5 observations of free-hand hitting behavior in 2 wild western gorillas, using stone-like objects (pieces of termite mound).
Gorillas are therefore the 2nd non-human lineage primate showing free-hand hitting behavior in the wild,
ours is the first report for free-hand hitting behavior in wild apes.
This study helps to shed light on the morpho-functional & cognitive requirements for the emergence of stone tool production:
it shows: a prerequisite for free-hand percussion (free-hand hitting) is part of the spontaneous behavioral repertoire of gorillas,
but the ability to combine free-hand hitting with the force, precision & accuracy needed to facilitate conchoidal fracture in free-hand percussion may still have been a critical watershed for hominin evolution.

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littor...@gmail.com wrote:

somebody:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cockatoos-tool-kit-national-park
Cockatoos can tell when they need more than one tool
to swipe a snack
Besides chimps, the birds are the only known nonhumans
to use a tool kit

Free hand hitting of stone-like objects in wild gorillas
Shelly Masi cs 2022 Sci.Rep.12:11981

Very good, child, this completely fits the scenario that
tool use began on land.

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somebody:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cockatoos-tool-kit-national-park
Cockatoos can tell when they need more than one tool
to swipe a snack
Besides chimps, the birds are the only known nonhumans
to use a tool kit

Free hand hitting of stone-like objects in wild gorillas
Shelly Masi cs 2022 Sci.Rep.12:11981

Very good, child, this completely fits the scenario that
tool use began on land.

:-DDD Are you really so stupid? or do yo only pretend?
"Long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) use axe-shaped stones to smash the shells of rock oysters, detached gastropods, bivalves, and swimming crabs."
cf. sea-otter stone tool use.
Miocene Hominoidea lived in coastal forests, google "gondwanatalks verhaegen" & shell engravings, google "Joordens Munro".

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Primum Sapienti wrote:

Cockatoos can tell when they need more than one tool
to swipe a snack

https://youtu.be/W2mC3pTATbw

Robert Smith. And I liked that album better
than Disintegration.




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JTEM is so reasonable wrote:

Primum Sapienti wrote:

Cockatoos can tell when they need more than one tool
to swipe a snack

They are proficient stone knappers, fashioning hand axes and
spear points, as well as a variety of perplexing tools which
may be involved in small engine repair.

This absolutely positively proves Out of Africa purity and the
savanna origins of humanity.

Google Cockatoos, btw, see where they're from.

From land.

I'll wait.

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littor...@gmail.com wrote:

somebody:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cockatoos-tool-kit-national-park
Cockatoos can tell when they need more than one tool
to swipe a snack
Besides chimps, the birds are the only known nonhumans
to use a tool kit

Free hand hitting of stone-like objects in wild gorillas
Shelly Masi cs 2022 Sci.Rep.12:11981

Very good, child, this completely fits the scenario that
tool use began on land.

:-DDD Are you really so stupid? or do yo only pretend?
"Long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) use axe-shaped stones to smash the shells of rock oysters, detached gastropods, bivalves, and swimming crabs."

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajp.20642
The enhanced tool-kit of two groups of wild bearded
capuchin monkeys in the Caatinga: tool making,
associative use, and secondary tools

The use of stones to crack open encapsulated fruit is
widespread among wild bearded capuchin monkeys (Cebus
libidinosus) inhabiting savanna-like environments.

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Primum Sapienti wrote:

[...]

I don't call you a narcissist as a compliment.




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