Here's one for raggie

Raggie,

To help take your mind off your troubles, find the answer to this one .

What is the only non-human species currently known to spontaneously make tools out of materials it does not encounter in the wild.

E.T. he did make a phone out of a speak-&-spell

i guess monkey but.ive also think dolphins oir some ocean crriter useing sponges for something like filtering out sand

JimH said:

What is the only non-human species currently known to spontaneously make tools out of materials it does not encounter in the wild.

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...in the wild? In other words, this is an animal that walks into a True Value?
Please clarify!

PhotonWrangler said:

...in the wild? In other words, this is an animal that walks into a True Value?
Please clarify!

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Close. Say a creature finds a piece of straight wire and forms it into a hook to obtain food that would be otherwise inaccessable.

Ive seen monkeys use twigs to get bugs out of trees.
Beavers use rocks to break open oysters, and maybe nuts.

now, theres a difference though,
theres tools, and then the ones that MODIFY something to MAKE it into a tool.

Holy crow, this one's gonna be tough. My guess, well, it's got to be some kind of two legged type. Am I getting "warm"?

AbnerCadaver said:

Holy crow, this one's gonna be tough. My guess, well, it's got to be some kind of two legged type. Am I getting "warm"?

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I'd say you were more than warm. Let go a little longer before you give them the answer.

I'd suspect there is more than one non-human creature that have improvised non-standard uses for things. Here's one recently noticed.

I've seen video of them doing it, its pretty impressive.

I read that story, IIRC the color of the animal is black. Not saying the answer since this is a riddle for Raggie.

AlexGT

I always knew CPFers, as a group, were smarter than the average bear, but who knew they were also so well read .

AlexGT said:

I read that story, IIRC the color of the animal is black. Not saying the answer since this is a riddle for Raggie.

AlexGT

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Nevermore, you sayeth?

PhotonWrangler said:

Nevermore, you sayeth?

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You guys are pretty clever with the clues :thinking:

So did you pick this up from the thread elsewhere, or just come across it and decide to Poe?

Bill

jtice
Beavers eat bark, you're thinking about sea otters with the rock trick.

The New Caledonian Crow.
Yaesumofo


BTW I did not read the thread before posting the answer I see more clues.
I cheated to get the answer using a litle known feature on google to post the search as a question with a ?.
Google came up with this reply to the question:
What is the only non-human species currently known to spontaneously make tools out of materials it does not encounter in the wild?

A link to the answer here:
http://tinyurl.com/e4pw3

After seeing this page I do remember seeing video of this in the past but I was unable to put it together with the queston.
Oh the wonders of the internet.
Yaesumofo

The beans are spilled.

Bragging rights go to AbnerCadaver :goodjob:

2nd and 3rd place go to AlexGT and PhotonWrangler.

Thanks to all for the cleverly disguised answers.

That is cool, I did not know the answer, but am not surprised. I study, read about and photograph the American Crow all the time. It would stun many people to know we have such an intelligent animal right under our noses.

Dave