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  • Cockatoos can use tool kits

    From Primum Sapienti@21:1/5 to All on Mon Apr 10 15:08:29 2023
    https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cockatoos-tool-kit-national-park
    Cockatoos can tell when they need more than one tool
    to swipe a snack

    Besides chimps, the birds are the only known nonhumans
    to use a tool kit

    Forget screwdrivers or drills. A stick and a straw make
    for a great cockatoo tool kit.

    Some Goffin’s cockatoos (Cacatua goffiniana) know
    whether they need to have more than one tool in claw to
    topple an out-of-reach cashew, researchers report
    February 10 in Current Biology. By recognizing that
    two items are necessary to access the snack, the birds
    join chimpanzees as the only nonhuman animals known to
    use tools as a set.
    ...


    This is cute

    https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cockatoo-open-trash-cans

    Human trash can be a cockatoo’s treasure. In Sydney,
    the birds have learned how to open garbage bins and
    toss trash around in the streets as they hunt for food
    scraps. People are now fighting back.
    ...

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  • From JTEM is so reasonable@21:1/5 to Primum Sapienti on Mon Apr 10 16:14:36 2023
    Primum Sapienti wrote:

    Cockatoos can tell when they need more than one tool
    to swipe a snack

    They are proficient stone knappers, fashioning hand axes and
    spear points, as well as a variety of perplexing tools which
    may be involved in small engine repair.

    This absolutely positively proves Out of Africa purity and the
    savanna origins of humanity.

    Google Cockatoos, btw, see where they're from.

    I'll wait.



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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Tue Apr 11 06:41:53 2023
    somebody:
    https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cockatoos-tool-kit-national-park Cockatoos can tell when they need more than one tool
    to swipe a snack
    Besides chimps, the birds are the only known nonhumans
    to use a tool kit

    Free hand hitting of stone-like objects in wild gorillas
    Shelly Masi cs 2022 Sci.Rep.12:11981
    doi 10.1038/s41598-022-15542-7
    The earliest stone tool types (sharp flakes knapped from stone cores) are assumed to have played a crucial role in human cognitive evolution.
    Flaked stone tools have been observed to be accidentally produced when wild monkeys use hand-held stones as tools.
    Holding a stone core in hand + hitting it with another in the absence of flaking (free hand hitting) has been considered a requirement for producing sharp stone flakes by hitting stone on stone, free hand percussion.
    We report on 5 observations of free-hand hitting behavior in 2 wild western gorillas, using stone-like objects (pieces of termite mound).
    Gorillas are therefore the 2nd non-human lineage primate showing free-hand hitting behavior in the wild,
    ours is the first report for free-hand hitting behavior in wild apes.
    This study helps to shed light on the morpho-functional & cognitive requirements for the emergence of stone tool production:
    it shows: a prerequisite for free-hand percussion (free-hand hitting) is part of the spontaneous behavioral repertoire of gorillas,
    but the ability to combine free-hand hitting with the force, precision & accuracy needed to facilitate conchoidal fracture in free-hand percussion may still have been a critical watershed for hominin evolution.

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  • From Primum Sapienti@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Jun 13 23:05:16 2023
    [email protected] wrote:
    somebody:
    https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cockatoos-tool-kit-national-park
    Cockatoos can tell when they need more than one tool
    to swipe a snack
    Besides chimps, the birds are the only known nonhumans
    to use a tool kit

    Free hand hitting of stone-like objects in wild gorillas
    Shelly Masi cs 2022 Sci.Rep.12:11981

    Very good, child, this completely fits the scenario that
    tool use began on land.

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jun 17 12:58:21 2023
    somebody:
    https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cockatoos-tool-kit-national-park
    Cockatoos can tell when they need more than one tool
    to swipe a snack
    Besides chimps, the birds are the only known nonhumans
    to use a tool kit

    Free hand hitting of stone-like objects in wild gorillas
    Shelly Masi cs 2022 Sci.Rep.12:11981

    Very good, child, this completely fits the scenario that
    tool use began on land.

    :-DDD Are you really so stupid? or do yo only pretend?
    "Long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) use axe-shaped stones to smash the shells of rock oysters, detached gastropods, bivalves, and swimming crabs."
    cf. sea-otter stone tool use.
    Miocene Hominoidea lived in coastal forests, google "gondwanatalks verhaegen" & shell engravings, google "Joordens Munro".

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  • From JTEM is so reasonable@21:1/5 to Primum Sapienti on Mon Jun 19 05:22:01 2023
    Primum Sapienti wrote:

    Cockatoos can tell when they need more than one tool
    to swipe a snack

    https://youtu.be/W2mC3pTATbw

    Robert Smith. And I liked that album better
    than Disintegration.




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  • From Primum Sapienti@21:1/5 to JTEM is so reasonable on Thu Jun 22 22:55:37 2023
    JTEM is so reasonable wrote:
    Primum Sapienti wrote:

    Cockatoos can tell when they need more than one tool
    to swipe a snack

    They are proficient stone knappers, fashioning hand axes and
    spear points, as well as a variety of perplexing tools which
    may be involved in small engine repair.

    This absolutely positively proves Out of Africa purity and the
    savanna origins of humanity.

    Google Cockatoos, btw, see where they're from.

    From land.

    I'll wait.

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  • From Primum Sapienti@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Jun 22 22:58:57 2023
    [email protected] wrote:
    somebody:
    https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cockatoos-tool-kit-national-park
    Cockatoos can tell when they need more than one tool
    to swipe a snack
    Besides chimps, the birds are the only known nonhumans
    to use a tool kit

    Free hand hitting of stone-like objects in wild gorillas
    Shelly Masi cs 2022 Sci.Rep.12:11981

    Very good, child, this completely fits the scenario that
    tool use began on land.

    :-DDD Are you really so stupid? or do yo only pretend?
    "Long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) use axe-shaped stones to smash the shells of rock oysters, detached gastropods, bivalves, and swimming crabs."

    https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajp.20642
    The enhanced tool-kit of two groups of wild bearded
    capuchin monkeys in the Caatinga: tool making,
    associative use, and secondary tools

    The use of stones to crack open encapsulated fruit is
    widespread among wild bearded capuchin monkeys (Cebus
    libidinosus) inhabiting savanna-like environments.

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  • From JTEM is so reasonable@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jun 23 11:43:29 2023
    Primum Sapienti wrote:

    [...]

    I don't call you a narcissist as a compliment.




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