Even "using tools" doesn't cut it anymore, as apes have been shown to use their own tools to achieve their own modest goals.
Yet they are also intelligent and resourceful, and have been shown to use tools.
Bosses have been shown to use social media at work more than their underlings, after all.
Until now, only horses and dogs have been shown to use directed gazes to communicate with humans.
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Some viruses, however, such as cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), had been shown to use RNA as their genetic material.
Many animals including seals, sea turtles and some migratory birds have all been shown to use magnetic fields to navigate.
Because monkeys had been shown to use mirrors to locate food, Donald M. Broom of the University of Cambridge and his colleagues decided to check for a similar sort of so-called assessment awareness in pigs.
Viruses such as HIV-1 have been shown to use specific transmembrane chemokine receptors as one path to cellular entry and infection.
We believe that this represents the first time, and certainly for a species related to a major food crop, that a plant has been shown to use the aphid alarm pheromone as an allomone.
Two G protein coupled receptors called neuropeptide receptor-22 (NPR-22) and FMRFamide peptide-like receptor-3 (FRPR-3) had been previously shown to use FLP-7 peptides as ligands for Gq-mediated activation in HEK293 cells44,45.
