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SUBMITTER: Neilands PD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5156351 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Neilands P D PD Jelbert S A SA Breen A J AJ Schiestl M M Taylor A H AH
PloS one 20161214 12
It is highly difficult to pinpoint what is going through an animal's mind when it appears to solve a problem by 'insight'. Here, we searched for an information processing error during the emergence of seemingly insightful stone dropping in New Caledonian crows. We presented these birds with the platform apparatus, where a heavy object needs to be dropped down a tube and onto a platform in order to trigger the release of food. Our results show New Caledonian crows exhibit a weight inattention err ...[more]