Tool making cockatoos adjust the lengths but not the widths of their tools to function.

The ability to innovatively use or even manufacture different tools depending on a current situation can be silhouetted against examples of stereotyped, inborn tool use/manufacture and is thus often associated to advanced cognitive processing. In this study we confronted non-specialized, yet innovat...

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Main Authors: A M I Auersperg, C Köck, M O'Hara, L Huber
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6221259?pdf=render