Fish Using Tools

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http://news.discovery.com/animals/fish- ... 10929.html

Fish are adept at using rocks as tools, and a researcher has the video to prove it. The footage, shot in Palau and described in the journal Coral Reefs, is the first ever to show a fish using a tool.

In the video, an orange-dotted tuskfish is seen digging a clam out of the sand. The tuskfish then carries the clam over to a rock, and repeatedly throws the clam against the rock to crush it. This is basic tool tech, but it does the job and is impressive when you consider that fish don't have hands or much to work with in their habitats.

[Alexander]

How interesting... it's a great find considering that they don't have hands. I just wonder how long these fish have been doing such things and if they either got their influence from something else or they found it out on their own.