Goffin’s cockatoo named third species that carries toolsets around in preparation for future tasks
- Written by Rob Heinsohn, Professor of Evolutionary and Conservation Biology, Australian National University
Thomas Suchanek, CC BY-SAFrom pocket knives to smart phones, humans keep inventing ever-more-sophisticated tools. However, the notion that tool use is an exclusively human trait was shattered in the 1960s when Jane Goodall observed our closest living relatives, chimpanzees, retrieving termites from holes with stripped twigs.
Tool use among...




