Tool-making new caledonian crows have large associative brain areas

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 63-70

  Mehlhorn, Julia ^a   Hunt, Gavin R ^c   Gray, Russell D ^c   Rehkämper, Gerd ^a   Güntürkün, Onur ^b  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Brain; Brain size; Cognition; Corvus moneduloides; Mesopallium; New Caledonian crow; Striatopallidal complex; Tool making; Tool use

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CROW; EVOLUTION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HISTOLOGY; INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING; NERVE TRACT; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TELENCEPHALON; TOOL USE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CROWS; EVOLUTION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; INTELLIGENCE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TELENCEPHALON; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CORVIDAE; CORVUS MONEDULOIDES; MAMMALIA; PASSERIDAE;

EID: 77950097513     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000295151     Document Type: Article

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