Goffin's cockatoos make the same tool type from different materials.

ABSTRACT: Innovative tool manufacture is rare and hard to isolate in animals. We show that an Indonesian generalist parrot, the Goffin's cockatoo, can flexibly and spontaneously transfer the manufacture of stick-type tools across three different materials. Each material required different manipulation patterns, including substrates that required active sculpting for achieving a functional, elongated shape.

SUBMITTER: Auersperg AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5134049 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature