Smart Animals using Complex Tools

Continuing the theme of animals being much smarter than we give them credit for, two stories about complex tool use in Crows and Dolphins:
Dolphins Are Using Sea Sponges as Tools:  http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/04/these-genius-dolphins-are-using-sea-sponges-as-tools/361168

New videos prove crows can make complex tools that only humans have made before:
http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/12/new-videos-prove-crows-can-make-complex-tools-that-only-humans-have-made-before/
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Apes, AIs and Us

On first contact with our Great Ape cousins, we dressed them in clothes, gave them beds to sleep in and even took them for tea with the King.
They were people.

We are so close that a rat and a mouse are ten times as different from one-another as a Human and a Chimp. We will seem closer still when Super Intelligent AIs raise the cognitive bar and humans join the other animals as uncanny innocents.
Read how it plays out in @SingularitysChildren my new Novel
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32966907