Tool use by wild New Caledonian crows Corvus moneduloides at natural foraging sites

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1686, 2010, Pages 1377-1385

  Bluff, Lucas A ^a,c   Troscianko, Jolyon ^b   Weir, Alex A S ^a   Kacelnik, Alex ^a   Rutz, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agrianome fairmairei; Aleurites moluccana; Corvus monedubides; Extractive foraging; Social learning; Tool use

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; DECIDUOUS TREE; FEEDING GROUND; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LARVA; LEAF; LEARNING; PASSERINE; STEM; TOOL USE; VIDEOGRAPHY; WILD POPULATION;

NEW CALEDONIA [MELANESIA];

ALEURITES; ALEURITES MOLUCCANA; COLEOPTERA; CORVIDAE; CORVUS; CORVUS MONEDULOIDES;

EID: 77952273076     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1953     Document Type: Article

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