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  1. 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: cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/

    #dinosaurs #Evolution #ToolUse

  2. 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: cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/

    #dinosaurs #Evolution #ToolUse

  3. 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: cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/

    #dinosaurs #Evolution #ToolUse

  4. 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: cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/

    #dinosaurs #Evolution #ToolUse

  5. 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: cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/

    #dinosaurs #Evolution #ToolUse

  6. ARTIST: RL-Powered Tool Use for LLM Agents Explained Most LLM agents call tools the same way every time: a fixed schema, a static prompt, a hand-crafted decision tree for when to invoke search() vs...

    #reinforcementlearning #llmagents #tooluse #agenticai

    Origin | Interest | Match
  7. 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 grrlscientist.medium.com/cleve

  8. 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 grrlscientist.medium.com/cleve

  9. 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 grrlscientist.medium.com/cleve

  10. 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 grrlscientist.medium.com/cleve

  11. 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 grrlscientist.medium.com/cleve

  12. 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 grrlscientist.medium.com/cleve

  13. 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 grrlscientist.medium.com/cleve

  14. 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 grrlscientist.medium.com/cleve

  15. 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 grrlscientist.medium.com/cleve

  16. 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 grrlscientist.medium.com/cleve

  17. 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 grrlscientist.medium.com/cleve

  18. 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 grrlscientist.medium.com/cleve

  19. 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 grrlscientist.medium.com/cleve

  20. 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 grrlscientist.medium.com/cleve

  21. 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 grrlscientist.medium.com/cleve

  22. 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
    forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist

  23. 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
    forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist

  24. 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
    forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist

  25. 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
    forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist

  26. 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
    forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist

  27. 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
    forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist

  28. 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
    forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist

  29. 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
    forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist

  30. 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
    forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist

  31. 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
    forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist

  32. 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
    alojapan.com/1470866/chimpanze

  33. 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
    alojapan.com/1470866/chimpanze

  34. alojapan.com/1470866/chimpanze 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

  35. alojapan.com/1470866/chimpanze 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

  36. 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…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Wildlife #ape #chimpanzee #Drum #evolution #Greatape #Music #musicalinstrument #pan #Pantroglodytes #Rhythm #Science #sound #tooluse
    newsbeep.com/us/557847/

  37. 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…
    #NewsBeep #News #Wildlife #Ape #AU #Australia #chimpanzee #Drum #Evolution #Greatape #Music #Musicalinstrument #pan #Pantroglodytes #Rhythm #Science #Sound #tooluse
    newsbeep.com/au/578100/

  38. 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…
    #NewsBeep #News #Wildlife #Ape #AU #Australia #chimpanzee #Drum #Evolution #Greatape #Music #Musicalinstrument #pan #Pantroglodytes #Rhythm #Science #Sound #tooluse
    newsbeep.com/au/578100/

  39. @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

  40. @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

  41. @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

  42. @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

  43. @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

  44. 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

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

  45. RE: biologists.social/@jekely/1159

    #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)
    doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.11.

  46. RE: biologists.social/@jekely/1159

    #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)
    doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.11.

  47. RE: biologists.social/@jekely/1159

    #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)
    doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.11.

  48. RE: biologists.social/@jekely/1159

    #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)
    doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.11.

  49. 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/
  50. A pet named Veronika can scratch her own back with a broom — the first scientifically documented case of in , researchers say.

    This tool-using cow defies expectations for braininess
    Veronika uses a long-handled brush to scratch her back and other out-of-reach body parts
    sciencenews.org/article/tool-u
    archive.ph/2u7Ej

  51. 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