ArticleCurrent biology : CB2018
Corvid Technologies: How Do New Caledonian Crows Get Their Tool Designs?
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- Beyond the Chicken: Alternative Avian Models for Developmental Physiological Research.Frontiers in physiology · 2021Pooled it
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- Dimensions of corvid consciousness.Animal cognition · 2025Review
- The growing methodological toolkit for identifying and studying social learning and culture in non-human animals.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- Strategies for integrating animal social learning and culture into conservation translocation practice.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- A perspective on neuroethology: what the past teaches us about the future of neuroethology.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2024Review
- Animal culture research should include avian nest construction.Biology letters · 2021Article
- Object manufacture based on a memorized template: Goffin's cockatoos attend to different model features.Animal cognition · 2021Article
- Examining the mechanisms underlying the acquisition of animal tool behaviour.Biology letters · 2020Article
- Raw-material selectivity in hook-tool-crafting New Caledonian crows.Biology letters · 2019Article
- Population turnover, behavioral conservatism, and rates of cultural evolution.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Recent research shows that New Caledonian crows can incorporate information from researcher-made objects into objects they subsequently manufacture. This 'mental template matching' is one of several possible - mutually compatible - mechanisms for the cultural transmission of tool designs among wild crows.
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