Sometimes tool use is not the key: No evidence for cognitive adaptive specializations in tool-using woodpecker finches

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 945-956

  Teschke, I ^a   Cartmill, E A ^b   Stankewitz, S ^c   Tebbich, S ^d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Adaptive specialization; Cactospiza pallida; Darwin's finch; Physical cognition; Problem solving; Reversal learning; Tool use

Indexed keywords

BIRD; COGNITION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; IDENTIFICATION KEY; SPECIALIZATION; TOOL USE;

ANIMALIA; CACTOSPIZA PALLIDA; CAMARHYNCHUS PARVULUS; FRINGILLIDAE;

EID: 80054723102     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.07.032     Document Type: Article

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