Parallel tool industries in New Caledonian crows

Biology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 173-175

  Hunt, Gavin R ^a   Gray, Russell D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Corvus moneduloides; New Caledonian crow; Parallel tool industries; Tool specialization; Transmission mechanisms; Vertical social learning

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LABOR DIVISION; LEARNING; NICHE; PASSERINE; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SPECIALIZATION; TOOL USE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROW; FEMALE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MALE; NEW CALEDONIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL LEARNING; TOOL USE;

CALIFORNIA; MARE ISLAND; MELANESIA; NEW CALEDONIA [MELANESIA]; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

CORVIDAE; CORVUS MONEDULOIDES; PANDANUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 37349089145     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0603     Document Type: Article

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