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