From: Randall Parker 

In , the sagacious bobcomer{at}mindspring.com
Robert Comer perspicated:
> Chimpanzee getting termites out of a mound actually.

Ah, I wasn't sure which primate it was that does that.

>It's really cool as
> they coat the stick with a sticky plant substance to make the termites stick
> to the stick.
>
> > Or how about a seal breaking a shell on a rock on his stomach?
>
> Sea Otter.

I'm bad with names .

>
> Not to mention a few egg scavenger birds that throw rocks at egg's to break
> them. Archer fish shoot "pellets" of water at bugs to make
them fall into
> the water, but that's not their coolest trick -- their vision system adjusts
> properly for refraction out of the water, yet see normally underwater..
> There's many tool use instances in the animal kingdom, and that's why "tool
> use" has been pretty much stricken from the intelligence level
> "calculations"

Seems to me that tool use that is learned should be part of how
intelligence is measured.

>Another that should be, if not already stricken, is the
> opposable thumb thing.

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