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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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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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author | Uomini, Natalie Hunt, Gavin |
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description | 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 evolution of tool use and intelligence in birds. |
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spelling | pubmed-55656412017-09-06 A new tool-using bird to crow about Uomini, Natalie Hunt, Gavin Learn Behav Outlook 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 evolution of tool use and intelligence in birds. Springer US 2017-03-31 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5565641/ /pubmed/28364366 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13420-017-0262-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. Open access funding provided by Max Planck Society. |
spellingShingle | Outlook Uomini, Natalie Hunt, Gavin A new tool-using bird to crow about |
title | A new tool-using bird to crow about |
title_full | A new tool-using bird to crow about |
title_fullStr | A new tool-using bird to crow about |
title_full_unstemmed | A new tool-using bird to crow about |
title_short | A new tool-using bird to crow about |
title_sort | new tool-using bird to crow about |
topic | Outlook |
url | 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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