{"id":2207,"date":"2007-08-17T08:05:27","date_gmt":"2007-08-17T08:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=2207"},"modified":"2007-08-17T08:05:27","modified_gmt":"2007-08-17T08:05:27","slug":"planet-of-the-crows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=2207","title":{"rendered":"Planet of the crows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it won&#8217;t be the cockroaches that take over when the human race is gone, but those <a href  = \"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/2007\/aug\/17\/1\">very smart crows<\/a>. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A tool-using strategy that was key to the advancement of early humans has been observed by scientists in a bird. &#8220;Metatool use&#8221;, the ability to use one tool on another, is something that humans and great apes such as chimps and orang-utans are capable of, but with which monkeys struggle. However, a study has shown that New Caledonian crows can manage this task easily.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Horror movie anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it won&#8217;t be the cockroaches that take over when the human race is gone, but those very smart crows. A tool-using strategy that was key to the advancement of early humans has been observed by scientists in a bird. &#8220;Metatool use&#8221;, the ability to use one tool on another, is something that humans and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}