Wednesday, September 28, 2011

First Video of Fish Tool Use

The video below, filmed off the coast of Palau, in 2009 is the first video evidence of fish using "tools".  An orange-dotted tuskfish was filmed digging through the ocean bottom, finding a clam, and then using a rock like an anvil to get the clam open.  If tool use is an indication of intelligence, then are fish smarter than we give them credit for?

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