Diver Snaps First Photo of Fish Using Tools 118
sciencehabit writes with this excerpt from Science: "While exploring Australia's Great Barrier Reef, professional diver Scott Gardner heard an odd cracking sound and swam over to investigate. What he found was a footlong blackspot tuskfish holding a clam in its mouth and whacking it against a rock. Soon the shell gave way, and the fish gobbled up the bivalve, spat out the shell fragments, and swam off. Fortunately, Gardner had a camera handy and snapped what seem to be the first photographs of a wild fish using a tool." (Not everyone agrees that this constitutes tool use, says the article, in part because the "tool" isn't something that the fish can actually manipulate.)
obligatory comment (Score:4, Funny)
I for one welcome our new fish overlords.
Misread the title (Score:5, Funny)
Isn't every camera technically a tool? Diver have used cameras all the time!
Oohhh, the fish using a tool. :P
Call Stanley Kubrick (Score:5, Funny)
Re:obligatory comment (Score:4, Funny)
The cephalopods are the overlords, the fish are just their minnows.
FTFY
Mailing List (Score:5, Funny)
Fish should begin receiving catalogs from Harbor Freight in the mail any day now.
Re:I don't get it... (Score:5, Funny)