Rare footage shows a puffin in the wild using a stick to scratch itself

This is the first reported case of a wild seabird using a tool to scratch itself. Previously this behaviour had only been documented in wild elephants and primates. This is an Atlantic puffin filmed in a breeding colony in Iceland. Video credit: Fayet, Snær Hansen, Biro, “Evidence of tool use in a seabird“, PNAS, 18 October 2019 Read the full paper: