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10 Animals That Use Tools | LiveScience

I would add at least one other to that list: housecats.

It's clear that housecats are highly intelligent. They also talk, i.e., in the same sense we do, using vocal communication to transmit complex information among themselves as well as to other organisms, such as big, backward Homo sapiens, who rarely

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I forgot to add that ants make tools. They're simple tools, used for simple purposes, but they are tools, and ants constantly improvise them. These include such things as tiny bits of stick used as pry-bars to pull away something blocking access to food of some kind, that sort of thing, but they do the job. Ants have also been known to use such tools to operate on nest-mates who have gotten injured in some way, e.g., using a bit of stick or metal to carefully remove a piece of wood or whatever that has pierced an ant's integument, easing it out by judicious use of the tools.

Like bees, ants are eusocial, forming superorganisms, or nests (bee superorganisms are of course called "hives"). It may be that the ingenuity, initiative, and intelligence we see in the behavior of ants or bees is actually somehow directed by the superorganism that is their collective form, but those qualities can be seen in both ants and bees, and in the case of ants, that includes making tools to do a necessary job on the spot and putting it to use with great dexterity and care. Everywhere you look, there's intelligence. "Are we alone in the universe?" Oh, hell no! :-D

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