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SUBMITTER: Laumer IB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4917853 | biostudies-other | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Laumer I B IB Bugnyar T T Auersperg A M I AM
Scientific reports 20160623
Decisions involving the use of tools may require an agent to consider more levels of relational complexity than merely deciding between an immediate and a delayed option. Using a new experimental approach featuring two different types of tools, two apparatuses as well as two different types of reward, we investigated the Goffin cockatoos' ability to make flexible and profitable decisions within five different setups. Paralleling previous results in primates, most birds overcame immediate drives ...[more]