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A new tool-using bird to crow about

The Hawaiian crow has been revealed as a skilled tool user, confirmed by testing the last members of this endangered species that survive in captivity. The finding suggests its behavior is tantalizingly similar to that of the famous tool-using New Caledonian crow and has implications for the evoluti...

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Autores principales: Uomini, Natalie, Hunt, Gavin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5565641/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28364366
http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13420-017-0262-5
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