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Tool Use in the Animal Kingdom

Goughin's cockatoos live in parts of Indonesia and they've been found to be capable of one of the most complex pieces of animal thinking ever encountered. They use tools to complete tasks but not just one type of tool several and they can even plan ahead and take just the right number of different tools to get the job done. If only my builder could take a leaf out of their book. Will Tingle takes up the story? Tool use or using an external object to change something about another object is very commonplace in our lives. Chopping food with a knife that's tool use. Driving a car is tool use will be the very complex tool and tool use features in the animal

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