Innovative pandanus-tool folding by New Caledonian crows

Australian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 291-298

  Hunt, Gavin R ^a   Abdelkrim, Jawad ^b   Anderson, Michael G ^c   Holzhaider, Jennifer C ^a   Marshall, Amy J ^b   Gemmell, Neil J ^b   Gray, Russell D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PASSERINE; TOOL USE;

MELANESIA; NEW CALEDONIA [MELANESIA]; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

CORVIDAE; PANDANUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 39049161537     PISSN: 0004959X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/ZO07048     Document Type: Article

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