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Re: Troodon again

To: Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au>
Subject: Re: Troodon again
From: John Bois <jbois@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 21:43:02 -0400 (EDT)
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On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Dann Pigdon wrote:
> 
>       Tool use is not necessarily signs of high intelligence. There
> are many birds that use tools. I recently saw footage of a
> wedge-tailed eagle using a stone to crack open an emu egg, and as

Could you tell us how the eagle did this? Thrown, like an Egyptian vulture
at an ostrich egg; dropped from a great height, or held in the beak and
hammered.  Was it a rockish stone, or merely a pebblish stone?

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