Flexibility in problem solving and tool use of kea and new caledonian crows in a multi access box paradigm

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Auersperg, Alice M I ^a,b   von Bayern, Auguste M P ^c   Gajdon, Gyula K ^a,b   Huber, Ludwig ^a   Kacelnik, Alex ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROW; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARROT; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; FOOD; PHYSIOLOGY; PSITTACINE; REWARD; TIME; TOOL USE;

CORVIDA; CORVIDAE; PSITTACIDAE;

ANIMALS; CROWS; FOOD; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSITTACIFORMES; REWARD; TIME FACTORS; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR;

EID: 79958165009     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020231     Document Type: Article

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