today’s “birds as tool-users” link

as the owner of an umbrella cockatoo, I had to post this link on tool using with burrowing owls: owls use dung to “fish” for beetles. Anyone who’s spent time around birds is not surprised. it is only a matter of time before my bird invents the lock pick.

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