#tool-use — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #tool-use, aggregated by home.social.
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Clever Cockatoo Manufactures And Uses Tools
"Not known to manufacture or use tools in the wild, a captive cockatoo demonstrates that parrots can make tools to suit their needs"
#cognition #ToolUse #Cockatoos #ornithology https://grrlscientist.medium.com/clever-cockatoo-manufactures-and-uses-tools-350214a04362
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Clever Cockatoo Manufactures And Uses Tools
"Not known to manufacture or use tools in the wild, a captive cockatoo demonstrates that parrots can make tools to suit their needs"
#cognition #ToolUse #Cockatoos #ornithology https://grrlscientist.medium.com/clever-cockatoo-manufactures-and-uses-tools-350214a04362
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Clever Cockatoo Manufactures And Uses Tools
"Not known to manufacture or use tools in the wild, a captive cockatoo demonstrates that parrots can make tools to suit their needs"
#cognition #ToolUse #Cockatoos #ornithology https://grrlscientist.medium.com/clever-cockatoo-manufactures-and-uses-tools-350214a04362
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How Bruce The Broken Beaked Kea Became King Of His Circus
"Bruce surprised researchers by turning his disability into such a successful advantage, both behaviorally and physiologically."
#parrots #ToolUse #Behavior #cognition #Disability
https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2026/04/25/how-bruce-the-broken-beaked-kea-became-king-of-his-circus/ -
How Bruce The Broken Beaked Kea Became King Of His Circus
"Bruce surprised researchers by turning his disability into such a successful advantage, both behaviorally and physiologically."
#parrots #ToolUse #Behavior #cognition #Disability
https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2026/04/25/how-bruce-the-broken-beaked-kea-became-king-of-his-circus/ -
@perkinsy Thirty years ago my cat Straaltje discovered how to attract my attention in the kitchen when out of reach. She knew where to jump from the counter on a loose board so that I would feel it (I am #deaf). That board can also be considered a #tool. Lots of examples like these, it is us humans which are to stupid to recognize it. #tooluse #animals #tooling #animalstudies
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RE: https://biologists.social/@jekely/115926352021625708
#Tooluse in #bovids so far was underestimated until a recent #scientific #study highlighted Austrian #cow #Veronika and her #flexible #purposeful self-#scrarching tool handling. Indicating that further studies might show similar potentials also in other #Bovidae taxa.
The authors A. J. Osuna-Mascaró & Alice M.I. Auersperg (2026) published their findings in #CurrentBiology.
© This text #StefanFWirth Berlin 2026Reference:
A. J. Osuna-Mascaró & Alice M.I. Auersperg (2026)
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First-ever flexible #ToolUse seen in a #cow suggests livestock are smarter than believed | #ScientificAmerican https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/first-ever-flexible-tool-use-seen-in-a-cow-suggests-livestock-are-smarter/ #science #animal #intelligence
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Ars Technica: Meet Veronika, the tool-using cow. “Her owner, Witgar Wiegele, is an organic farmer and baker who keeps the cow as a pet. With Wiegele’s permission, they conducted a series of randomized trials with a deck scrub broom, chosen for its asymmetrical shape, placed in different orientations. The pair recorded 76 instances of Veronika using the broom over seven sessions of ten trials.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/20/ars-technica-meet-veronika-the-tool-using-cow/ -
A pet #cow named Veronika can scratch her own back with a broom — the first scientifically documented case of #tooluse in #cows, researchers say.
This tool-using cow defies expectations for #bovine braininess
Veronika uses a long-handled brush to scratch her back and other out-of-reach body parts
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/tool-using-cow-cognition-scratch
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i did not know that Red-Cockaded Woodpeckers use tools until today when I photographed one who appears to be using a carefully selected pine needle to probe into a sap well
is this a common behavior?
#Bird #Birding #Woodpecker #Endangered #ToolUse #AnimalBehavior #Wildlife #PineForest #Nature
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Fascinating new work on tool-augmented AI systems:
ToolOrchestra shows that a small 8B orchestrator model can coordinate diverse tools and larger LLMs to outperform frontier models on complex reasoning tasks – at a fraction of the cost. Strong signal for the future of agentic, modular AI systems.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.21689v1
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ReAct부터 Human-in-the-Loop까지: 실전 AI 에이전트 패턴 6가지
ReAct부터 Human-in-the-Loop까지 실전에서 바로 쓰는 AI 에이전트 패턴 6가지를 코드와 함께 완벽 정리. 각 패턴의 사용 시기, 구현 방법, 한계점을 비교하며 프로덕션 성공을 위한 선택 전략을 제시합니다. -
🚀🎉 Breaking news: #AI doesn't actually *think*, it just fakes it like the rest of us! 🤖🔧 But wait, tool use is the new "reasoning"? 😂 Sounds like someone confused their AI with a Swiss army knife!
https://manidoraisamy.com/reasoning-not-ai.html #Reasoning #ToolUse #HackerNews #TechHumor #ArtificialIntelligence #HackerNews #ngated -
Thinking with places
“A farmer has to cut down trees to create space for his farmstead and fields. Yet once the farm is established it becomes an ordered world of meaning—a place—and beyond it is the forest and space.” — Yi-Fu Tuan
Thinking itself is place-making: the act of converting undifferentiated possibility into navigable meaning.
A place comes into being the moment we interrupt undifferentiated space. Place-making is fundamentally an act of interruption. Space is thought of as possibility but is unavailable without the signposts of place. When a place is created we impose a way of looking, being, and acting on the space of choice. The place you pick to navigate your space defines the identity you will inhabit during your quest. Every tool is a micro-place: it frames what can be thought and forecloses alternative moves. They enforce the kind of thoughts that can be had, the type of exploration that can be done, and configures space in an opinionated way.
Two-masted Schooner with Dory (1894) by Winslow Homer. Original from The Smithsonian. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.Picking a tool commits us to a world view. Consider the space of ‘good TV shows’. Family, friends and culture have made the choice of what good means. When Netflix suggests shows it uses your watching history as a probe to create place so that every individual is always watching ‘good’ shows. The pure possibility space of the search bar is disrupted by the suggestions provided.
Like algorithmic curation, Socratic dialogue also interrupts space, it is interrogation as cartography. Socratic thinking is also an act of interruption and making concrete what was nebulous. It’s asking us to specify which show, if we claim to love TV. Socratic thinking (henceforth referred to as just thinking) starts by probing that which does not need questioning, the answers that are obvious the ones that everyone knows. This may seem foreign at first glance but we do this all the time, say we make a list of our favorite TV shows, someone always says you are missing this or that show and that this list is completely wrong. This kind of disagreement leads to the shared quest of answering the question, ‘What is it to be entertained?’.
Thinking pursues knowledge through the act of stabilizing answers to such questions by creating places in those unexamined areas. Discussion allows us to map. There is usually no well defined answer for such questions, if there were, they would simply be problems that we could solve with a google search. The quest stops when the parties involved are satisfied that they have arrived at an answer. Thinking is the act of place-making by taking something that was ungraspable and tying it down with knowledge. Place is, after all, an “ordered world of meaning” and we can use these places to create home bases from which to explore.
Even without other people simply engaging with the reality of the universe is sufficient for thought. Places are stable systems which provide a surface on which your thoughts and hypothesis can be tested. Even if there is no other person around and you’re simply engaged with looking at the world can uncover a new truth tied down by knowledge.
Thinking is the process of updating beliefs based on the mini places that make up the space that you’re interrogating. Each place is a noisy pointer to the underlying truth, and each updating of belief allows you to get closer to the knowledge you seek.
#algorithmicCuration #cognitiveScience #criticalThinking #epistemology #mentalModels #philosophy #senseMaking #socraticMethod #spaceAndPlace #toolUse #worldview #yiFuTuan
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Researchers have discovered that endangered killer whales in the Pacific Northwest use tools made from kelp to groom one another – a behaviour never before seen in marine mammals.
In a new study published in Current Biology, scientists observed southern resident killer whales manufacturing tools by tearing off pieces of bull kelp and rolling them between their bodies during social interactions.
Drone footage captured whales pressing the kelp against their companions and using it in prolonged grooming sessions."
