New Caledonian crows attend to multiple functional properties of complex tools

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1630, 2013, Pages

  St Clair, James J H ^a   Rutz, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal tool use; Comparative cognition; Folk physics; Hook; Tool choice; Tool selectivity

Indexed keywords

BIRD; DECISION MAKING; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FITNESS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LEAF; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; TOOL USE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL TOOL USE; ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE COGNITION; CROW; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOLK PHYSICS; HOOK; MALE; NEW CALEDONIA; TOOL CHOICE; TOOL SELECTIVITY; TOOL USE; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMAL TOOL USE; COMPARATIVE COGNITION; FOLK PHYSICS; HOOK; TOOL CHOICE; TOOL SELECTIVITY;

ANIMALS; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CROWS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; NEW CALEDONIA; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR; VIDEO RECORDING;

NEW CALEDONIA [MELANESIA];

ANIMALIA; AVES; CORVIDAE; CORVUS MONEDULOIDES; PANDANUS;

EID: 84885213908     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0415     Document Type: Article

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