A study, published in Current Biology, shows that crows are innovative tool users — and the Times has video of a bird playing out one of Aesop’s fables:
As the 2000-year-old story goes, the crow filled the bucket of water with stones until the level became high enough for him to quench his thirst.Just a fable? Apparently not. Footage shows a rook — a relation of the crow — performing the feat to reach a worm floating on the water’s surface.