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New Caledonian Crows Learn the Functional Properties of Novel Tool Types

New Caledonian crows were presented with Bird and Emery's (2009a) Aesop's fable paradigm, which requires stones to be dropped into a water-filled tube to bring floating food within reach. The crows did not spontaneously use stones as tools, but quickly learned to do so, and to choose objec...

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Autores principales: Taylor, Alex H., Elliffe, Douglas M., Hunt, Gavin R., Emery, Nathan J., Clayton, Nicola S., Gray, Russell D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3237408/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22194779
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0026887