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Tool bending in New Caledonian crows
- Source :
- Royal Society Open Science, Vol 3, Iss 8 (2016), Royal Society Open Science
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- The Royal Society, 2016.
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Abstract
- Funded through a BBSRC David Phillips Fellowship (BB/G023913/1 and /2 to C.R.), and three PhD studentships (JASSO to S.S.; University of St Andrews to J.v.d.W.; BBSRC and University of St Andrews to B.K.). ‘Betty’ the New Caledonian crow astonished the world, when she ‘spontaneously’ bent straight pieces of garden wire into hooked foraging tools. Recent field experiments have revealed that tool bending is part of the species’ natural behavioural repertoire, providing important context for interpreting Betty’s iconic wire-bending feat. More generally, this discovery provides a compelling illustration of how natural history observations can inform lab-based research into the cognitive capacities of non-human animals. Publisher PDF
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine
History
comparative cognition
Comparative cognition
QH301 Biology
Foraging
Intelligence
Corvus moneduliodes
Context (language use)
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
Corvus moneduloides
corvus moneduloides
Visual arts
03 medical and health sciences
QH301
insight
biology.animal
Natural (music)
Innovation
lcsh:Science
Behavioural repertoire
QL
Multidisciplinary
biology
Biology (Whole Organism)
Environmental ethics
QL Zoology
intelligence
innovation
tool use
030104 developmental biology
lcsh:Q
Tool use
Insight
Research Article
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20545703
- Volume :
- 3
- Issue :
- 8
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Royal Society Open Science
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....6cf69444a858e2316e82fe11838c72ce