Nature

This crow bends wire into a hook to fish food out of a tube, unprompted

New Caledonian crows craft hooked tools from twigs in the wild, stripping and shaping them to pull grubs out of tight crevices. In a 2002 lab test, a crow named Betty spontaneously bent a straight piece of wire into a hook to retrieve a food basket from a tube, a tool-making feat no one had shown her, done on her very first attempt.

Alex A. S. Weir, Jackie Chappell, and Alex Kacelnik, Crafting of Hooks in Tool Use by New Caledonian Crows — Science, 2002

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