- Abstract:
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Parrots and corvids show outstanding innovative and flexible behaviour. In particular, kea and New Caledonian crows are often singled out as being exceptionally sophisticated in physical cognition, so that comparing them in this respect is particularly interesting. However, comparing cognitive mechanisms among species requires consideration of non-cognitive behavioural propensities and morphological characteristics evolved from different ancestry and adapted to fit different ecological niches...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
- Version:
- Publisher's version
- Publisher:
- Public Library of Science Publisher's website
- Journal:
- PloS one Journal website
- Volume:
- 6
- Issue:
- 6
- Pages:
- Article: e20231
- Publication date:
- 2011-01-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1932-6203
- ISSN:
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1932-6203
- URN:
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uuid:9fe4eb27-677a-41e6-b9a5-80ea7070774b
- Source identifiers:
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209788
- Local pid:
- pubs:209788
- Language:
- English
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- Copyright holder:
- Auersperg et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2011
- Notes:
- Copyright 2011 Auersperg et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Flexibility in problem solving and tool use of kea and New Caledonian crows in a multi access box paradigm.
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