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Hook tool manufacture in New Caledonian crows: behavioural variation and the influence of raw materials

BACKGROUND: New Caledonian crows use a range of foraging tools, and are the only non-human species known to craft hooks. Based on a small number of observations, their manufacture of hooked stick tools has previously been described as a complex, multi-stage process. Tool behaviour is shaped by genet...

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Autores principales: Klump, Barbara C., Sugasawa, Shoko, St Clair, James J. H., Rutz, Christian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4650250/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26582537
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-015-0204-7