Lesson 4 The Amazing World of Animals
Animals That Use Tools
People once thought that only humans can use ____.
Now, scientists are ____ out that many animals can also use tools.
Macaque Monkeys
If you go to a Buddhist temple in ____ Buri, Thailand, watch out for the Macaque monkeys.
They may come to ____ and pull out your hair.
They ____ human hair to floss their teeth.
If you are lucky, you may see female monkeys that are teaching ____ to their babies.
While the babies are watching, the female ____ floss their teeth very slowly.
This way, the baby monkeys ____ to floss.
Octopuses
People don’t usually think that ____ are smart.
However, octopuses are very smart, and they can also ____ tools.
They use coconut shells for ____.
When they can’t find a good ____ place, they hide under coconut shells.
____ octopuses even store coconut shells for later use.
They pile the coconut ____ and carry them to use later.
____ smart!
Crows
In Aesop’s fable The Thirsty Crow, a crow drops ____ 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 water in ____ of a crow.
A worm was ____ on top of the water.
____, the water level was low, so the crow could not eat the worm.
The crow ____ the problem just as in the fable.
It dropped stones ____ the jar.
If you think this bird is special, ____ are wrong.
Scientists did the same experiment with other crows, and they all did the same, ____.