M Hansell, GD Ruxton - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2008 - cell.com
Tool use and manufacture are given prominence by their rarity and suggested relation to human lineage. Here, we question the view that tool use is rare because cognitive abilities …
CD Bird, NJ Emery - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
The ability to use tools has been suggested to indicate advanced physical cognition in animals. Here we show that rooks, a member of the corvid family that do not appear to use …
AH Taylor, D Elliffe, GR Hunt… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Apes, corvids and parrots all show high rates of behavioural innovation in the wild. However, it is unclear whether this innovative behaviour is underpinned by cognition more complex …
Abstract New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides) are the most prolific avian tool- users,. Regional variation in the shape of their tools may be the result of cumulative cultural …
AH Taylor, GR Hunt, FS Medina… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The extent to which animals other than humans can reason about physical problems is contentious. The benchmark test for this ability has been the trap-tube task. We presented …
New Caledonian crows, Corvus moneduloides, are the most advanced avian tool makers and tool users. We previously reported that captive-bred isolated New Caledonian crows …
R Gruber, M Schiestl, M Boeckle, A Frohnwieser… - Current Biology, 2019 - cell.com
One of the mysteries of animal problem-solving is the extent to which animals mentally represent problems in their minds. Humans can imagine both the solution to a problem and …
Understanding causal regularities in the world is a key feature of human cognition. However, the extent to which non-human animals are capable of causal understanding is not well …
Creative problem solving and innovative tool use in animals are often seen as indicators of advanced intelligence because they seem to imply causal reasoning abilities [1]. However …