SCIENCE – Did you know that birds do not only use branches to make nests? Like some other animals that use them as tools, puffins use them to scratch. This scientific discovery recently published and relayed by CNN reveals that birds may have more capacity than we think.
As you see in our video above, scientists from the National Academy of Sciences in the United States published the results of their observations at the end of December from images recorded in July 2018. On these, a puffin from Grimsey Island in Iceland scratches the belly in an area inaccessible to its beak, using a stick that it picked up a little further.
A few kilometers away, in Wales, this team of animal experts observes the same behavior in another subject. This suggests that the use is well established in this species of seabirds adding to the use of the branches by some birds for the construction of the nest. And could still have other uses in other animals.
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