#tool-use — Public Fediverse posts

Tool-using (non-avian) dinosaurs 🦖.
I could probably just leave at that, but it's actually a debated topic. There is some potential for that on some troodontids, but finding real evidence is a challenge.

Link: https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/cjes-2020-0184

#dinosaurs #Evolution #ToolUse

Tool-using (non-avian) dinosaurs 🦖.
I could probably just leave at that, but it's actually a debated topic. There is some potential for that on some troodontids, but finding real evidence is a challenge.

Link: https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/cjes-2020-0184

#dinosaurs #Evolution #ToolUse

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"

#SciComm by @grrlscientist

#cognition #ToolUse #Cockatoos #ornithology https://grrlscientist.medium.com/clever-cockatoo-manufactures-and-uses-tools-350214a04362

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"

#SciComm by @grrlscientist

#cognition #ToolUse #Cockatoos #ornithology https://grrlscientist.medium.com/clever-cockatoo-manufactures-and-uses-tools-350214a04362

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"

#SciComm by @GrrlScientist

#cognition #ToolUse #Cockatoos #ornithology https://grrlscientist.medium.com/clever-cockatoo-manufactures-and-uses-tools-350214a04362

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"

#SciComm by @GrrlScientist

#cognition #ToolUse #Cockatoos #ornithology https://grrlscientist.medium.com/clever-cockatoo-manufactures-and-uses-tools-350214a04362

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"

#SciComm by @grrlscientist

#cognition #ToolUse #Cockatoos #ornithology https://grrlscientist.medium.com/clever-cockatoo-manufactures-and-uses-tools-350214a04362

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"

#SciComm by @grrlscientist

#cognition #ToolUse #Cockatoos #ornithology https://grrlscientist.medium.com/clever-cockatoo-manufactures-and-uses-tools-350214a04362

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."

#SciComm by @GrrlScientist

#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."

#SciComm by @GrrlScientist

#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."

#SciComm by @grrlscientist

#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."

#SciComm by @grrlscientist

#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/

Chimpanzee’s Drum Solo Offers Clues to Origins of Music

Researchers who analyzed dozens of spontaneous performances by a captive male chimpanzee named Ayumu say the animal’s steady rhythms and expressive ‘play face’ hint at how early humans may have …
#Japan #JP #Kyoto #Ape #chimpanzee #drum #evolution #Greatape #kyotonews #music #musicalinstrument #news #pan #Pantroglodytes #Rhythm #sound #Tooluse #京都 #京都府
https://www.alojapan.com/1470866/chimpanzees-drum-solo-offers-clues-to-origins-of-music/

https://www.alojapan.com/1470866/chimpanzees-drum-solo-offers-clues-to-origins-of-music/ Chimpanzee’s Drum Solo Offers Clues to Origins of Music #Ape #chimpanzee #drum #evolution #GreatApe #Kyoto #KyotoNews #music #MusicalInstrument #news #pan #PanTroglodytes #Rhythm #sound #ToolUse #京都 #京都府 Researchers who analyzed dozens of spontaneous performances by a captive male chimpanzee named Ayumu say the animal’s steady rhythms and expressive ‘play face’ hint at how early humans may have transformed vocal emotion into instrumental soun

@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

@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

So a cow can use a stick to scratch its backside. When will we learn that humans are really not that special?

by Helen Pilcher / via The Guardian

#Animal #ToolUse #smart

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/21/cows-sticks-humans-grooming-minds

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 2026

Reference:

A. J. Osuna-Mascaró & Alice M.I. Auersperg (2026)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.11.059

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 2026

Reference:

A. J. Osuna-Mascaró & Alice M.I. Auersperg (2026)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.11.059

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