How do banded mongooses locate and select anvils for cracking encased food items?

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 350-356

  McAuliffe, Katherine ^a   Thornton, Alex ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Banded mongooses; Extractive foraging; Field experiments; Physical cognition; Rules of thumb

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORE; COGNITION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FEEDING; FELID; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; NATURAL SELECTION; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANVIL; ARTICLE; BANDED MONGOOSE; CARNIVORA; CHIMPANZEE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD; FOOD PREFERENCE; FOOD PROCESSING; FORAGING; KNOWLEDGE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PREDICTION; THUMB;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HERPESTIDAE; MALE; NUTS; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR;

HERPESTIDAE; MUNGOS MUNGO;

EID: 84861985789     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2012.03.016     Document Type: Article

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