Photo of Fish Using a Rock to Open a Clam
Posted on July 11, 2011 Comments (6)
Blackspot tuskfish using a rock to crack open a clam. Photo by Scott Gardner
Diver Snaps First Photo of Fish Using Tools
Tool use, once thought to be the distinctive hallmark of human intelligence, has been identified in a wide variety of animals in recent decades…
There have also been a handful of reports of fish cracking open hard-shelled prey, such as bivalves and sea urchins, by banging them on rocks or coral, but there’s no photo or video evidence to back it up, according to Culum Brown, a behavioral ecologist at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and a co-author of the present paper, to be published in a forthcoming issue of Coral Reefs.
The more we learn about animals the more tool use we find. It is continually interesting to see the wide variety of behavior documented.
Related: Bird Using Bait to Fish – Dolphins Using Tools to Hunt – Orangutan Attempts to Fish with Spear – Ancient Chimps Used Stone “Hammers”
6 Responses to “Photo of Fish Using a Rock to Open a Clam”
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July 13th, 2011 @ 4:38 am
For sure animals are more astute than we think they are. Only when i think of dogs, horses, dolphins etc. I understand that we aren’t the only intelligent life form on Earth.
July 24th, 2011 @ 5:35 pm
That is amazing how the fish figured out to use the rock as a tool. Like 2001 A Space Odyssey For fish!
July 27th, 2011 @ 9:04 am
“Blackspot tuskfish using a rock to crack open a clam”
This is amazing!It’s true that necessity is the mother of invention. The fish needed to fed himself so he uses the rock to do it.
July 27th, 2011 @ 9:47 am
amazing that the fish uses that rock like a tool, that shws that there are quite a lot of intelligent lifeforms on our planet!
July 28th, 2011 @ 1:48 am
This is cool uh, brilliant! First time I’ve seen this, Yeah it’s true some animals are intelligent in some ways. Thank you for sharing it. Awesome blog.
August 21st, 2011 @ 1:05 am
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