Professor Christian Rutz explores the early findings from a massive study on how the ‘anthropause’ caused by COVID-19 restrictions has impacted wildlife
Posted July 23rd, 2021 for ANU Image: James St Clair A clever piece of detective work by an international team, including a researcher from The Australian National University (ANU), has helped solved the mystery of which plants a population of crows on New Caledonia use to craft tools. The crafty crows are well known for making their own stick tools with hooked tips to retrieve invertebrate prey from small holes and crevices. The New Caledonian crow is the only non-human animal known to manufacture hooked tools in the wild. They put a lot of effort into making them. They use specific plants with forked stems, which they remove and then process into hooked tools for foraging, study co-author Dr Linda Neaves from ANU said.
DNA helps solve riddle of how clever crows craft tools
23 July 2021
A clever piece of detective work by an international team, including a researcher from The Australian National University (ANU), has helped solved the mystery of which plants a population of crows on New Caledonia use to craft tools.
The crafty crows are well known for making their own stick tools with hooked tips to retrieve invertebrate prey from small holes and crevices.
The New Caledonian crow is the only non-human animal known to manufacture hooked tools in the wild. They put a lot of effort into making them. They use specific plants with forked stems, which they remove and then process into hooked tools for foraging, study co-author Dr Linda Neaves from ANU said.
Lockdowns changed animal behaviour. Researchers want to know what that means.
Cheryl Santa Maria
mercredi, 24 juin 2020 à 14:41 - Researchers hope the findings will inspire new ways to co-exist with nature post-COVID-19.
A widespread and prolonged reduction in human activity due to COVID-19 lockdowns is likely changing animal behaviour, and a global team of researchers has been formed in response, according to an article published this week in Nature Ecology & Evolution.
We already have anecdotal evidence of animals changing their movements, with multiple reports of animals roaming in areas normally bustling with human life.
And this isn t just happening in Canada there have been reports of altered animal behaviour in parts of Europe and Asia as well.
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