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                  Without any guidance, a crow named Betty, being studied in
                  the laboratory of Oxford University, bent a thin metal rod into a
                  shape that she could use as a tool. When she couldn’t reach
                  food at the bottom of a container with her beak, the crow bent
                  the end of a piece of wire she found in the laboratory into a
                  hook. Betty understood that the wire, an object she had never
                  seen before, would be useful because of its size and flexibility.
                  She also succeeded in bending the flexible wire in a way that
                  suited her purpose. Scientists pointed out that in spite of her
                  smaller brain, Betty demonstrated a level of intelligence higher
                  than chimpanzees.
                                 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2178920.stm
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