Animal Cognition: Aesop's Fable Flies from Fiction to Fact
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A new study shows that rooks are able to spontaneously drop stones into a tube of water to obtain a floating worm. This sophisticated problem solving raises intriguing questions about the use of imagination in animals.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Current Biology
دوره 19 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009