Innovative composite tool use by Goffin's cockatoos (Cacatua goffiniana).

ABSTRACT: Composite tool use (using more than one tool simultaneously to achieve an end) has played a significant role in the development of human technology. Typically, it depends on a number of specific and often complex spatial relations and there are thus very few reported cases in non-human animals (e.g., specific nut-cracking techniques in chimpanzees and capuchin monkeys). The innovative strategies underlying the innovation and spread of tool manufacture and associative tool use (using > 1 tools) across tool using animals is an important milestone towards a better understanding of the evolution of human technology. We tested Goffin's cockatoos on a composite tool problem, the 'Golf Club Task', that requires the use of two objects in combination (one used to control the free movement of a seco

SUBMITTER: Osuna-Mascaro AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8795444 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature