Rooks, close relatives of crows, actually uses stones to raise the level of water in a pitcher until it rises within reach of its beak as in an Aesop fable.
Preliminary evidence has been found that young orang-utans use leaves for deception, in order to make lower-pitched calls that seem to come from a much larger animal.
Genetic engineers have developed a new technique known as multiplex automated genome engineering, which essentially evolves bacteria with optimized or at least greatly improved production of the substance of interest.
