The keybox: Shape-frame fitting during tool use in Goffin's cockatoos (Cacatua goffiniana).

ABSTRACT: The ability to move an object in alignment to a surface develops early in human ontogeny. However, aligning not just your own body but also the object itself in relation to a surface with a specific shape requires using landmarks rather than the own body as a frame of reference for orientation. The ability to do so is considered important in the development of tool use behaviour in human and non-human animals. Aside from humans, with the exception of a single study on habitually tool using primates, shape-frame matching abilities remain largely unstudied. The Goffin's cockatoo is a generalist parrot, and not a specialised tool user but has shown the capacity to innovate and use different types of tools under controlled settings. We tested these parrots in a tool selection and tool use task

SUBMITTER: Habl C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5695585 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature