Cognitive processes associated with sequential tool use in New Caledonian crows.
BACKGROUND: Using tools to act on non-food objects--for example, to make other tools--is considered to be a hallmark of human intelligence, and may have been a crucial step in our evolution. One form of this behaviour, 'sequential tool use', has been observed in a number of non-human prim...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2009
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