What experience is required for acquiring tool competence? Experiments with two callitrichids
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Cottontop tamarin subadults with only minimal experimental experiences, and no experience with tools or tool-like tasks are tested and also subadult common marmosets Callithrix jacchus is tested. Results indicate that in the absence of any experience, neither tamarins nor marmosets are able to discriminate between functionally relevant and irrelevant features of a tool.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2005
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Tool manufacture by naive juvenile crows
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It has been shown that hand-raised juvenile New Caledonian crows spontaneously manufacture and use tools, without any contact with adults of their species or any prior demonstration by humans. This is an important step towards producing models of cultural transmission in this species and in animals in general.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2005
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Development of tool use in New Caledonian crows: inherited action patterns and social influences
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The effects of inheritance and individual learning on twig tool usage of New Caledonian crows are presented.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2006
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