{"id":2968,"date":"2011-09-16T15:21:13","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T05:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/?p=2968"},"modified":"2011-09-16T15:21:13","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T05:21:13","slug":"tooling-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/nature\/tooling-around\/","title":{"rendered":"Tooling around"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2972\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 512px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Untitled.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2972 \" title=\"Untitled\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Untitled-1024x743.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Untitled-1024x743.png 1024w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Untitled-300x217.png 300w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Untitled.png 1340w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: Macquarie University<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Believe or not, fishes use tools to eat.<!--more--><span style=\"color: #444444; font-weight: normal;\">Researchers from Macquarie University and Central Queensland University photographed a Black Spot Tusk Fish (<em>Choerodon schoenleinii<\/em>) smashing a cockle shell against a flat surface to break it open. The fish used the rock as the anvil and its head like a hammer \u2014 the shell was in its mouth, so the impact broke it. Some seabirds have been observed breaking shells open against rocks by dropping them from a height, but underwater &#8220;dropping&#8221;\u009d was thought to be impossible. The skills shown by Tusk Fish makes this adaptive technique \u2014 using its head to control the pressure put upon the shell \u2014 quite a nifty trick.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Believe or not, fishes use tools to eat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25,6,36],"tags":[68],"class_list":["post-2968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-marine-australia","category-nature","category-news","tag-emma-bastian"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2968"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2976,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968\/revisions\/2976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}