Photo: Tiny "Crow-Cams" Capture Tool Use in Wild Birds

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A wild New Caledonian crow perches with a video camera attached to its tail (red arrow). New research using the bird-mounted cams reveals that the crows are much more versatile tool users than had been previously thought.

Photograph © Jolyon Troscianko/Science

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