{"fact":"When presented with a novel material, aluminum strips, a New Caledonian crow named Betty quickly learned to bend it into a hook, demonstrating an ability to adapt tool-making skills to new materials.","context":"Betty quickly developed novel techniques to bend the material, and appropriately modified it on four of five trials when unbending was required. She did not mechanically apply a previously learned set of movements to the new situations, and instead sought new solutions to each problem.","source":"Alex A. S. Weir; Alex Kacelnik, A New Caledonian crow (Corvus moneduloides) creatively re-designs tools by bending or unbending aluminium strips, 10.1007/s10071-006-0052-5","index":189}