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Current Biology - Spontaneous innovation in tool manufacture and use in a Goffin’s cockatoo
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(12)01065-2, posted 2012 by peter in bird cognition science
Our observations prove that innovative tool-related problem-solving is within this species’ cognitive resources. As it is unknown for tools to play a major role in this species’ ecology, this strengthens the view that tool competences can originate on general physical intelligence, rather than just as problem-specific ecological solutions (see discussions in [2,4]). The precise cognitive operations underlying such innovations are still unknown, but future studies may continue to unravel them by modifying the tasks, and controlling the developmental history and pre-experimental experience across different groups of subjects.