Friday Fun: Bird Using Bait to Fish
Posted on May 15, 2009 Comments (9)
In the webcast an Aukuu bird (Black-crowned Night Heron) fishes using bread as bait. They normally hunt by waiting at the side of a lake and fishing. This individual learned how to bait the fish with bread and improve the fishing results. It also passed on that method to other birds that learned how to use the bait method themselves.
Another bird using bait (with turtles trying to get the bait) and another bird using bait (with a stork trying to steal the fish). And another one. The videos seem to be different species of birds to me.
Related: Orangutan Attempts to Hunt Fish with Spear – Dolphins Using Tools to Hunt – Bird Brain experiment – posts on animals
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May 15th, 2009 @ 12:10 pm
I saw something similar where birds were actually throwing nuts in the road and letting cars ran over them to crack them, and they then would pick up the pieces after watching the street light turned red. Genius!
May 20th, 2009 @ 2:55 pm
The only thing I’ve seen that was close is seagulls dropping clams onto a road frmo high altitudes to break them open.
July 5th, 2009 @ 8:31 am
Laboratory footage showing a pigeon solving Wolfgang Kohler’s famous box-and-banana problem, which he studied with chimpanzees in the early 1900s..
October 9th, 2009 @ 9:41 am
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November 27th, 2009 @ 1:02 pm
“The lyre bird, not only mimics the calls of other birds, buy also man made noises such as cameras, saws and chainsaws, in an attempt to impress potential mates…”
July 11th, 2011 @ 8:47 am
Tool use, once thought to be the distinctive hallmark of human intelligence, has been identified in a wide variety of animals in recent decades…
January 20th, 2012 @ 7:01 am
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September 3rd, 2012 @ 10:48 am
[…] strategy to take a byproduct of people (bread) and use it to lure in your prey. I posted another bird fishing using bait webcast previously: that post includes links to more such […]
April 12th, 2017 @ 9:45 am
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