Lesson 4 The Amazing World of Animals
Animals That Use Tools
People once thought that only ____ can use tools.
Now, scientists are finding out that many animals ____ also use tools.
Macaque Monkeys
If you go to a Buddhist ____ in Lop Buri, Thailand, watch out for the Macaque monkeys.
They may come to you and pull ____ your hair.
They use ____ hair to floss their teeth.
If you are lucky, you ____ see female monkeys that are teaching flossing to their babies.
While the babies are watching, the female monkeys floss their teeth very ____.
This way, the baby monkeys learn to ____.
Octopuses
People ____ usually think that octopuses are smart.
However, octopuses are very smart, and they ____ also use tools.
They use coconut ____ for protection.
When they ____ find a good hiding place, they hide under coconut shells.
____ octopuses even store coconut shells for later use.
They ____ the coconut shells and carry them to use later.
How ____!
Crows
In Aesop’s fable The Thirsty ____, a crow drops stones into a jar to raise the level of water.
____ may think this is just a story, but it is not.
Scientists who were studying crows did an ____.
They put a jar with ____ in front of a crow.
A worm was ____ on top of the water.
However, the ____ level was low, so the crow could not eat the worm.
The ____ solved the problem just as in the fable.
It ____ stones into the jar.
If you think this bird is special, you are ____.
Scientists did the same experiment with other crows, and they ____ did the same, too.