Navigating a tool end in a specific direction: Stick-tool use in kea (Nestor notabilis)

Biology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 825-828

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Birds; Physical cognition; Tool use

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CAPTIVE POPULATION; TOOL USE; WILD POPULATION;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 82455175848     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.0388     Document Type: Article

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