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Compound tool construction by New Caledonian crows
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The construction of novel compound tools through assemblage of otherwise non-functional elements involves anticipation of the affordances of the tools to be built. Except for few observations in captive great apes, compound tool construction is unknown outside humans, and tool innovation appears late in human ontogeny. We report that habitually tool-using New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides) can combine objects to construct novel compound tools. We presented 8 naïve crows with combinabl...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Springer Nature Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Scientific Reports Journal website
- Volume:
- 8
- Article number:
- 15676
- Publication date:
- 2018-10-24
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-09-20
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- EISSN:
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2045-2322
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:923139
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- pubs:923139
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923139
- Deposit date:
- 2018-10-02
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- von Bayern, et al
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
- © von Bayern et al, 2018. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as 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. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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