Kea (Nestor notabilis) fail a loose-string connectivity task

Abstract Naïve individuals of some bird species can rapidly solve vertical string-pulling tasks with virtually no errors. This has led to various hypotheses being proposed which suggest that birds mentally simulate the effects of their actions on strings. A competing embodied cognition hypothesis pr...

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Main Authors: Amalia P. M. Bastos, Patrick M. Wood, Alex H. Taylor
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-07-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-94879-x