Using the Aesop's Fable Paradigm to Investigate Causal Understanding of Water Displacement by New Caledonian Crows

Evidence from convergent evolution and causal reasoning suggests that conclusions on human uniqueness may be premature

(2012) Alex H. Taylor et al.   BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES

Chimpanzee 'folk physics': bringing failures into focus

(2012) A. Seed et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

How Do Children Solve Aesop's Fable?

(2012) Lucy G. Cheke et al.   PLoS One

New Caledonian crows reason about hidden causal agents

(2012) A. H. Taylor et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

An end to insight? New Caledonian crows can spontaneously solve problems without planning their actions

(2012) A. H. Taylor et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Extreme binocular vision and a straight bill facilitate tool use in New Caledonian crows

(2012) Jolyon Troscianko et al.   Nature Communications

What cognitive strategies do orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) use to solve a trial-unique puzzle-tube task incorporating multiple obstacles?

(2011) Emma C. Tecwyn et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Tool-use and instrumental learning in the Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius)

(2011) Lucy G. Cheke et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Physical cognition and tool-use: performance of Darwin’s finches in the two-trap tube task

(2011) I. Teschke et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Comparing the Performances of Apes (Gorilla gorilla, Pan troglodytes, Pongo pygmaeus) and Human Children (Homo sapiens) in the Floating Peanut Task

(2011) Daniel Hanus et al.   PLoS One

New Caledonian Crows Learn the Functional Properties of Novel Tool Types

(2011) Alex H. Taylor et al.   PLoS One

Animal Tool-Use

(2010) Amanda Seed et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

An Investigation into the Cognition Behind Spontaneous String Pulling in New Caledonian Crows

(2010) Alex H. Taylor et al.   PLoS One

Complex cognition and behavioural innovation in New Caledonian crows

(2010) A. H. Taylor et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Animal Cognition: Aesop's Fable Flies from Fiction to Fact

(2009) Alex H. Taylor et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The Role of Experience in Problem Solving and Innovative Tool Use in Crows

(2009) Auguste M.P. von Bayern et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Rooks Use Stones to Raise the Water Level to Reach a Floating Worm

(2009) Christopher David Bird et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The performance of bonobos (Pan paniscus), chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), and orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) in two versions of an object-choice task.

(2009) Nicholas J. Mulcahy et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Insightful problem solving and creative tool modification by captive nontool-using rooks

(2009) C. D. Bird et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Tubes, tables and traps: great apes solve two functionally equivalent trap tasks but show no evidence of transfer across tasks

(2008) Gema Martin-Ordas et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Do New Caledonian crows solve physical problems through causal reasoning?

(2008) A.H Taylor et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES