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Environment & Energy

intheflow

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2. Can I just say, weird that this is being called "tool use."

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Tue Nov 18, 2025, 11:05 AM

11 hrs ago

Canines have long been known to pull things and break into things to get food. I’ve had pet dogs drag deer carcasses out of the woods into my yard and open everything from cabinets to tin buckets to get dogfood. Noticing that a system exists to get food and using the existing system is not really the same as using tools. I’ll be impressed when the wolves start putting out their own buoys with traps.

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Cameras capture B.C. sea wolf raiding crab traps in first possible 'tool use' [View all] OnlinePoker 13 hrs ago OP

The amazing sea wolves of the Great Bear Rainforest cbabe 11 hrs ago #1

Can I just say, weird that this is being called "tool use." intheflow 11 hrs ago #2

Yah, I found that a bit of a stretch as well. OnlinePoker 10 hrs ago #3