Corvid technologies: how do New Caledonian crows get their tool designs?

Christian Rutz; Gavin Hunt; James St Clair

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2018.08.031

Corvid technologies: how do New Caledonian crows get their tool designs?

Christian Rutz, Gavin Hunt, James St Clair

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	R1109-R1111
Number of pages	3
Journal	Current Biology
Volume	28
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.08.031
Publication status	Published - 24 Sept 2018

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