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Tool use in Goffin's cockatoos: Shape/frame matching
1Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. impepper@media.mit.edu.
Learning & Behavior
|February 17, 2018
Abstract:
Nonhuman tool use is no longer questioned; the issues now are whether such use is mostly inflexible and innately specified or involves experience, innovation, adaptation, and cognitive planning, and how many species qualify. Habl and Auersperg (PLoS One, 12(11):e0186859, 2017) have shown that some Goffin's cockatoos (Cacatua goffiniana) respond in novel ways to a tool-use task that nonhuman primates and young children find somewhat challenging.