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title: "#Tool User Animals & Superpower Traits (6 Species) | AnimalTracks.wiki"
description: "Manipulating rocks, sticks, or shells to crack hard shells, probe tree hollows, or solve foraging puzzles. Explore all 6 species with this trait in the AnimalTracks wildlife encyclopedia."
image: "https://animaltracks.wiki/icon-512.png"
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# #Tool User Animals & Evolutionary Adaptations

> Manipulating rocks, sticks, or shells to crack hard shells, probe tree hollows, or solve foraging puzzles.

- **Trait Category**: Behavior & Tactics
- **Species Count**: 6 Curated Creatures
- **Browse Web**: [View interactive trait gallery](https://animaltracks.wiki/tags/tool-user/)

## Species With #Tool User

- [Blue Jay](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/blue-jay/) (*Cyanocitta cristata*)
  - **Superpower**: Can imitate the scream of a Red-shouldered Hawk
  - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern
  - **Soundtrack**: The Avalanches (Organic Downtempo & Micro-Sampling)
- [Chimpanzee](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/chimpanzee/) (*Pan troglodytes*)
  - **Superpower**: Regional tool kits (termite-fishing twigs, nut-cracking hammers, leaf sponges) that differ from community to community, plus a male dominance hierarchy whose alpha may take meat from subordinates and monopolize mating.
  - **Danger**: High | **Conservation**: Endangered
  - **Soundtrack**: Einstürzende Neubauten (Industrial Noise & Avant-Garde Experimental)
- [Common Raven](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/common-raven/) (*Corvus corax*)
  - **Superpower**: Caches food out of rivals' sight, guards the stash when an unseen rival might be watching, and is less willing to pull after a partner cheats
  - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern
  - **Soundtrack**: Heilung (Nordic Dark Folk & Ritual Atmospheric)
- [Kea (Alpine Parrot)](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/kea/) (*Nestor notabilis*)
  - **Superpower**: Uses relative quantities to predict odds, as human infants and chimpanzees do, plus a love of tinkering that often turns on taps and has been known to wreck car wipers.
  - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Endangered
  - **Soundtrack**: Dropkick Murphys (Celtic Punk & Folk Riot)
- [Sea Otter](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/sea-otter/) (*Enhydra lutris*)
  - **Superpower**: Up to a million hairs per square inch, the densest fur of any mammal, plus a skin pocket that carries a rock for cracking shells.
  - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Endangered
  - **Soundtrack**: Khruangbin (Classic Funk, Soul & Disco)
- [Tufted Capuchin](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/tufted-capuchin/) (*Sapajus apella*)
  - **Superpower**: Opens otherwise inaccessible fruit by smashing it on tree surfaces or using baton-like pieces of branch
  - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern
  - **Soundtrack**: Led Zeppelin (Classic Hard Rock & Southern Blues)

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