Kea, Nestor notabilis, produce dynamic relationships between objects in a second-order tool use task

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 783-789

  Auersperg, Alice M I ^a,b   Gajdon, Gyula K ^a,b   Huber, Ludwig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Kea; Means end; Nestor notabilis; Physical cognition; Tool use

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CAPTIVE POPULATION; COGNITION; TOOL USE;

AVES; CORVIDA; NESTOR NOTABILIS; PSITTACIDAE;

EID: 77957768951     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.08.007     Document Type: Article

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