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The Innovation Arena: A Method for Comparing Innovative Problem-Solving Across Groups

Problem-solving tasks are commonly used to investigate technical, innovative behavior but a comparison of this ability across a broad range of species is ...

University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, University of Vienna, Medical University of Vienna

Innovative tool manufacture is rare and hard to isolate in animals. We show that an Indonesian generalist parrot, the Goffin's cockatoo, can flexibly and spontaneously transfer the manufacture of stick-type tools across three different materials. Each material required different manipulation patterns, including substrates that required active sculpting for achieving a functional, elongated shape.

Article	Year
Goffin's cockatoos make the same tool type from different materials. Biology letters\| PubMed ID: 27852942	2016
Do puffins use tools? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America\| PubMed ID: 32430329	2020

Alice M. I. Auersperg

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