Corvid Technologies: How Do New Caledonian Crows Get Their Tool Designs?
Autor: | James J. H. St Clair, Christian Rutz, Gavin R. Hunt |
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Rok vydání: | 2018 |
Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine 03 medical and health sciences 030104 developmental biology Human–computer interaction Template matching Biology General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Cultural transmission in animals General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology |
Zdroj: | Current Biology. 28:R1109-R1111 |
ISSN: | 0960-9822 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.cub.2018.08.031 |
Popis: | Summary 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. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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