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# New Caledonian crow

Corvus moneduloides

It makes hooked tools from twigs and wire. Its neurons haven't been counted.

Neurons

No published count

## Evidence

* It makes hooked tools.  
Weir AAS, Chappell J, Kacelnik A (2002) Shaping of hooks in New Caledonian crows. Science 297(5583):981\. doi:10.1126/science.1073433.

The [New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness](https://sites.google.com/nyu.edu/nydeclaration/declaration) (2024) finds strong scientific support for conscious experience in mammals and birds.

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