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Federal air marshals are expanding their work beyond airplanes, launching counterterror surveillance at train stations and other mass transit facilities in a three-day test program.As of W
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More than fifty years ago, humans were pretty well convinced that they were special, different from the rest of the animal kingdom. That all changed in 1964 when Jane Goodall reported her observations of tool use in chimpanzees. Now we have evidence that Goffin cockatoos, parrots that don ;t use tools in the wild, have the cognitive capacity to learn to manufacture, modify, and use tools anyway. In the five decades since Jane Goodall first published her descriptions of chimpanzee tool use in the journal Nature, membership in the club of tool users expanded to include not just chimpanzees, but also elephants, dolphins, octopuses, crows, ravens, rooks, jays, dingoes, and dogs sort of . Among birds, tool use is now well-documented in the corvids 鈥?that crows, rooks, jays, ravens, and so on 鈥?but evidence has scant for tool use in other bird families. That all changed in 2012 when a captive male Goffin cockatoo named Figaro figured out how to use sticks to get food from outside his aviary. Figaro is one of a
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