Flexibility in Problem Solving and Tool Use of Kea and New Caledonian Crows in a Multi Access Box Paradigm

Alice M. I. Auersperg; Auguste M. P. von Bayern; Gyula K. Gajdon; Ludwig Huber; Alex Kacelnik

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0020231

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Flexibility in Problem Solving and Tool Use of Kea and New Caledonian Crows in a Multi Access Box Paradigm

Alice M. I. Auersperg ,

* E-mail: alice_bayern@hotmail.com

Affiliations Department of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Ethology, Vienna, Austria
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Auguste M. P. von Bayern,

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Gyula K. Gajdon,

Affiliations Department of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Ethology, Vienna, Austria
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Ludwig Huber ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Ludwig Huber, Alex Kacelnik

Affiliation Department of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Alex Kacelnik

Contributed equally to this work with: Ludwig Huber, Alex Kacelnik

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Flexibility in Problem Solving and Tool Use of Kea and New Caledonian Crows in a Multi Access Box Paradigm

Alice M. I. Auersperg,
Auguste M. P. von Bayern,
Gyula K. Gajdon,
Ludwig Huber,
Alex Kacelnik

Published: June 8, 2011
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0020231

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