
Alice Auersperg
Austrian biologist
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Oct 9, 2026
Island of the tool users
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Could you describe for us the work that you and your colleagues have been doing with Veronica?

Alice AuerspergGUEST
And I got lots of feedback from people telling me about their innovative pets.

Alice AuerspergGUEST
And those range from cats that were using a box as a tool to sleep in through people observing crows that were putting nuts on the street for the cars to drive over, which is an actual innovation.
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Cracking cancer's code, and the cow that scratches its back
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Alice AuerspergGUEST
Yeah, well, I'm interested in animal innovation, so how animals come up with completely new behaviours inventively.

Alice AuerspergGUEST
And after I've written this book, I got lots of emails from people sending me examples of their animals using tools.

Alice AuerspergGUEST
So there were people that told me that their cat was using the Amazon box as a house and people that the dog is using the stick to brush his teeth.

Alice AuerspergGUEST
And then I got this one video which was a little more than interesting because...


