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SUBMITTER: Lambert ML
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5627108 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lambert Megan L ML Schiestl Martina M Schwing Raoul R Taylor Alex H AH Gajdon Gyula K GK Slocombe Katie E KE Seed Amanda M AM
Royal Society open science 20170927 9
A range of non-human animals frequently manipulate and explore objects in their environment, which may enable them to learn about physical properties and potentially form more abstract concepts of properties such as weight and rigidity. Whether animals can apply the information learned during their exploration to solve novel problems, however, and whether they actually change their exploratory behaviour to seek functional information about objects have not been fully explored. We allowed kea (<i ...[more]