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BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY: Smart Birds Lend a Beak for Food
Constance Holden
Scientists report this week that rooks, like chimpanzees, can cooperate in food-getting tasks. The insight may help explain how cooperation evolved so spectacularly in humans.