Tool-Making and Tool-Using in the Northern Blue Jay

Thony B. Jones · Alan C. Kamil

109 citations0/0 files storedScience

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Primate Behavior and Ecology Avian ecology and behavior Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies

Abstract

Laboratory-raised Northeirn blue jays (Cyanocitta cristata) have been observed tearing pieces from pages of newspaper and utilizing them as tools to rake in food pellets which were otherwise out of reach. The frequency of this behavior was dependenit upon the motivational state of the jay and the presence of food pellets.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 109 citations exist upstream.

References

1971Tool-Using in Primates and Other Vertebrates 1972THE EVOLUTION OF THE USE OF TOOLS BY FEEDING ANIMALS

Cited by

2012Convergent Evolution of Cognition in Corvids, Apes and Other Animals 2002Explaining Human Origins

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.