Explorative Learning and Functional Inferences on a Five-Step Means-Means-End Problem in Goffin’s Cockatoos (Cacatua goffini)

Alice M. I. Auersperg; Alex Kacelnik; Auguste M. P. von Bayern

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0068979

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Explorative Learning and Functional Inferences on a Five-Step Means-Means-End Problem in Goffin’s Cockatoos (Cacatua goffini)

Alice M. I. Auersperg ,

* E-mail: alice.auersperg@univie.ac.at (AA); alex.kacelnik@zoo.ox.ac.uk (AK)

Affiliations Department of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Max-Planck-Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany
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Alex Kacelnik ,

* E-mail: alice.auersperg@univie.ac.at (AA); alex.kacelnik@zoo.ox.ac.uk (AK)

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Auguste M. P. von Bayern

Affiliations Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Max-Planck-Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany
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Explorative Learning and Functional Inferences on a Five-Step Means-Means-End Problem in Goffin’s Cockatoos (Cacatua goffini)

Alice M. I. Auersperg,
Alex Kacelnik,
Auguste M. P. von Bayern

Published: July 3, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0068979

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