Use of a barbed tool by an adult and a juvenile woodpecker finch (Cactospiza pallida)

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 166-171

  Sabine, Tebbich ^a   Irmgard, Teschke ^b   Erica, Cartmill ^c   Sophia, Stankewitz ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Darwin's finches; Tool use; Woodpecker finch

Indexed keywords

ADULT; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INVASIVE SPECIES; JUVENILE; LEARNING; PASSERINE; PREY CAPTURE; SHRUB; TOOL USE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BARK; BLACKBERRY; CACTOSPIZA PALLIDA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FINCH; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; PREY; SOCIAL ASPECT; TOOL USE; WILD TYPE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FINCHES; LEARNING; TAPE RECORDING; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR; VIDEO RECORDING;

ARTHROPODA; AVES; CACTACEAE; CACTOSPIZA PALLIDA; FRINGILLIDAE; RUBUS; RUBUS NIVEUS; SCALESIA;

EID: 84856388502     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2011.10.016     Document Type: Article

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