How many tool using animals can you name?

Question

OK now name tool using birds and last of all tool using insects???

Answer 1

Tool Users: Mammal
human
Chimpanzee
Beaver
Gorilla
grey Squirrel

Tool users: avian
crow
raven
harpy eagle
sea gull
galapagos finch


Tool users: insects
leaf cutter ants
spiders

Answer 2

I'll suprise all of you! Oh, the warm-blooded animals can use tools, yes, but if they can, and insects can, reptiles can as well.

A few years back, I saw home video of an alligator in a pond in a neighborhood. One end of the pond is a "conservation area" as they like to call it, the rest of the pond is surrounded by those cookie-cutter houses. A man at one end of the pond would feed the catfish and such every day. About once a week, this alligator would come across the pond from the "conservation area", grab a fish while the guy was feeding them, go back over to the "conservation area", get the fish up on his snout and sink so that only the fish was showing. Anhingas and other water birds would be in the trees, see the fish, come down to try to get it, the alligator would toss aside the fish, grab a bird and eat it, then it would find it's fish and eat that as well. Pretty good for having a brain the size of a peanut, huh?

Oh, you guys forgot dolphins, btw, in Australia, they've been seen shoving sponges into holes in the coral to chase out fish.

Answer 3

One of the most astonishing examples of the employment of tools by a bird is the use of bait by fishing Striated Herons (Butorides striatus) in southern Japan. The herons obtain bait as diverse as live insects, berries, twigs, and discarded crackers, and cast them on the waters. They then crouch and wait for the curious or hungry fish that comes to inspect the lure. The birds have even been observed carefully trimming oversized twigs to the proper dimensions -- so that like the Woodpecker Finch, the herons actually engage in tool manufacturing. Young herons are less successful bait-fishers than their elders, in part because they tend to use twigs that are too large. While the herons can fish successfully without bait, their use of bait seems to enlarge the catch. You should be on a sharp lookout for similar behavior in North American herons.
Green jays in Texas have been observed using twigs to extract food from crevices, and an American Robin is recorded as having used a twig to sweep aside leaves, but the only North American bird to habitually use tools is the Brown-headed Nuthatch. At least in one longleaf pine forest in Louisiana, it employs bits of bark to pry off other bits of bark when it searches for insects. Sometimes several pieces of bark are removed and the exposed area searched before a single bark tool is dropped, and the birds have been observed flying from place to place carrying the tools.

Answer 4

There are several animals that use tools. Sea otters use rocks to break open shellfish for lunch. Unless you count a nest as a tool, I don't happen to know of birds or insects that use tools.