Goffin's Cockatoos Join Humans and Chimps as Third Species Shown to Carry Toolsets for Future Tasks

From pocket knives to smartphones, 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 non-human animals is hotly debated. It's often thought a big […]