From: "Robert Comer" 

> But animals use technology too. eg Ever seen the nature films showing the
use of a stick to get bugs out of the ground?

Chimpanzee getting termites out of a mound actually. 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.

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

It's just the way they were made.

- Bob Comer 


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