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New Caledonia crows use tools for non-foraging activities
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Tool use is of great interest for cognitive research, largely because it can be particularly revealing about the underlying information processing mechanisms. Tool use that is inflexible or requires extensive experience to change, and that is only addressed towards specific targets such as food, is not likely to reflect unusual or particularly complex cognition. On the contrary, if tools are exployed flexibly and for a variety of innovative purposes, then conventional combinations of inherite...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Wimpenny, J
Kacelnik, A
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BB/C517392/1
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Springer-Verlag Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Animal cognition Journal website
- Volume:
- 14
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 459-464
- Publication date:
- 2011-01-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1435-9456
- ISSN:
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1435-9448
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- Language:
- English
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- Local pid:
- ora:5707
- Deposit date:
- 2011-09-22
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- Copyright holder:
- Springer-Verlag
- Copyright date:
- 2010
- Notes:
- The full-text of this article is not currently available in ORA, but the original publication is available at springerlink.com (which you may be able to access via the publisher copy link on this record page). Citation: Wimpenny, J. H., Weir, A. A. S. & Kacelnik, A. (2011). 'New Caledonian crows use tools for non-foraging activities', Animal Cognition 14(3), 459-464. [Available at http://www.springerlink.com/content/723130321305n866/].
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