Tool bending in New Caledonian crows

‘Betty’ the New Caledonian crow astonished the world when she ‘spontaneously’ bent straight pieces of garden wire into hooked foraging tools. Recent field experiments have revealed that tool bending is part of the species' natural behavioural repertoire, providing important context for interpre...

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Autores principales: Rutz, Christian, Sugasawa, Shoko, van der Wal, Jessica E. M., Klump, Barbara C., St Clair, James J. H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2016
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Biology (Whole Organism)
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5108972/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27853622
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160439
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author Rutz, Christian
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description ‘Betty’ the New Caledonian crow astonished the world when she ‘spontaneously’ bent straight pieces of garden wire into hooked foraging tools. Recent field experiments have revealed that tool bending is part of the species' natural behavioural repertoire, providing important context for interpreting Betty's iconic wire-bending feat. More generally, this discovery provides a compelling illustration of how natural history observations can inform laboratory-based research into the cognitive capacities of non-human animals.
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spelling pubmed-51089722016-11-16 Tool bending in New Caledonian crows Rutz, Christian Sugasawa, Shoko van der Wal, Jessica E. M. Klump, Barbara C. St Clair, James J. H. R Soc Open Sci Biology (Whole Organism) ‘Betty’ the New Caledonian crow astonished the world when she ‘spontaneously’ bent straight pieces of garden wire into hooked foraging tools. Recent field experiments have revealed that tool bending is part of the species' natural behavioural repertoire, providing important context for interpreting Betty's iconic wire-bending feat. More generally, this discovery provides a compelling illustration of how natural history observations can inform laboratory-based research into the cognitive capacities of non-human animals. The Royal Society 2016-08-10 /pmc/articles/PMC5108972/ /pubmed/27853622 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160439 Text en © 2016 The Authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5108972/
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