Do wild New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides) attend to the functional properties of their tools?

Animal Cognition

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 243-254

  Holzhaider, Jennifer C ^a   Hunt, Gavin R ^a   Campbell, Victoria M ^b   Gray, Russell D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Folk physics; Hooks; New Caledonian crows; Tool use

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; CROW; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; TOOL USE;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONCEPT FORMATION; CROWS; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR;

AVES; CORVIDAE; CORVUS MONEDULOIDES; PANDANUS;

EID: 40949137496     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-007-0108-1     Document Type: Article

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