“In the 1990s, reports began to roll in from New Caledonia, a small island in the South Pacific, of crows that fashion their own tools in the wild and appear to transmit local styles of toolmaking from one generation to the next – a feat reminiscent of human culture and proof that sophisticated tool skills do not require a primate brain.”

“In the 1990s, reports began to roll in from New Caledonia, a small island in the South Pacific, of crows that fashion their own tools in the wild and appear to transmit local styles of toolmaking from one generation to the next – a feat reminiscent of human culture and proof that sophisticated tool skills do not require a primate brain.”

— Jennifer Ackerman