Toolsmith Crow

Here's a movie of a crow creating and using a tool. In this case it's a piece of wire which the crow bends into a hook so that it can get at some food. The movie is interesting primarily because so many people are surprised that a crow could do such a thing -- they assume that animals are not only incapable of using (much less creating) tools, but that they are also incapable of problem-solving in general.

I find it interesting when people allow their cultural assumptions to leak into the scientific realm like this. It's frequently very difficult to tease apart what you're assuming from what you're actually seeing.