an article about goffin cockatoo's teaching themselves to use tools
though people here might find it interesting

http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/09/cockatoos-pick-up-tool-use-and-manufacture-through-social-learning/

By Grabthar's Hammer... fascinating! Also, terrifying.

The internet has gifted human beings the ability to lose the power of thought and coherent speech, and birds are building robots. I think we've found an evolutionary bell curve worth studying.

The other day I was out in the back yard doing some work and a cardinal flew by and invoked Godwin's law to me for no reason. He then flew off telling me that he was going to unsub me on twitter.