Human-like, population-level specialization in the manufacture of pandanus tools by New Caledonian crows Corvus moneduloides

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1441, 2000, Pages 403-413

  Hunt, Gavin Raymond ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Early humans; Handedness; New Caledonian crows; Population level specialization; Rule systems in tool making; Tool behaviour

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; HANDEDNESS; LEARNING; MODEL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NEW CALEDONIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CORVIDAE; CORVUS MONEDULA; CORVUS MONEDULOIDES; PANDANUS;

EID: 0034701097     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1015     Document Type: Article

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