Insightful problem solving and creative tool modification by captive nontool-using rooks

By Christopher D. Bird, N. Emery. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2009

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Tool Macgyvering: Tool Construction Using Geometric Reasoning (2019, background): “Mammals, such as chimpanzees [7] and bonobos [8], and birds, such as rooks [9] and blue jays [5], have been shown to create and use simple tools to retrieve food.”
Automated Planning and Acting (2016, background): “1 have been observed and studied from the viewpoint of how deliberative capabilities are developed, in species of corvids such as crows [597] or rooks [71, 70].”
Dark, Beyond Deep: A Paradigm Shift to Cognitive AI with Humanlike Common Sense (2020, background): “tant cousin, the rook, is able to reason and use tools in a lab setting, even they do not use tools in the wild [259].”