ArticleBiology letters2016
Goffin's cockatoos make the same tool type from different materials.
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- Sensitivity to permanent non-functionality in Goffin's cockatoos (Cacatua goffiniana).Scientific reports · 2026Article
- The flexible, the stereotyped and the in-between: putting together the combinatory tool use origins hypothesis.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026Review
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- Mechanical Problem Solving in Goffin's Cockatoos-Towards Modeling Complex Behavior.Adaptive behavior · 2024Article
- Hooded crows (Corvus cornix) manufacture objects relative to a mental template.Animal cognition · 2024Article
- Bone-related behaviours of captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) during two excavating experiments.Primates; journal of primatology · 2023Article
- Innovative composite tool use by Goffin's cockatoos (Cacatua goffiniana).Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Extending the Reach of Tooling Theory: A Neurocognitive and Phylogenetic Perspective.Topics in cognitive science · 2021Article
- Goffin's cockatoos discriminate objects based on weight alone.Biology letters · 2021Article
- Object manufacture based on a memorized template: Goffin's cockatoos attend to different model features.Animal cognition · 2021Article
- String-pulling in the Goffin's cockatoo (Cacatua goffiniana).Learning & behavior · 2021Article
- Convergent evolution of complex cognition: Insights from the field of avian cognition into the study of self-awareness.Learning & behavior · 2021Review
- Goffin's Cockatoos (Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Of Great Apes and Magpies: Initiations into Animal Behaviour.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2020Article
- Using an Innovation Arena to compare wild-caught and laboratory Goffin's cockatoos.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Kea show three signatures of domain-general statistical inference.Nature communications · 2020Article
- Macphail's Null Hypothesis of Vertebrate Intelligence: Insights From Avian Cognition.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Review
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- Tool use in Goffin's cockatoos: Shape/frame matching.Learning & behavior · 2019Article
- Tool making cockatoos adjust the lengths but not the widths of their tools to function.PloS one · 2018Article
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Abstract
Innovative tool manufacture is rare and hard to isolate in animals. We show that an Indonesian generalist parrot, the Goffin's cockatoo, can flexibly and spontaneously transfer the manufacture of stick-type tools across three different materials. Each material required different manipulation patterns, including substrates that required active sculpting for achieving a functional, elongated shape.
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