Tools and brains in birds

By L. Lefebvre, Nektaria Nicolakakis, D. Boire. 2002

311 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Social Psychology

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Food stealing in birds: brain or brawn? (2007, methodology): “…and/or social complexity (Barton 1996; Burish et al. 2004; Shultz & Dunbar 2006), frugivory (Clutton-Brock & Harvey 1980), capture of mobile prey (Garamszegi et al. 2002), innovation frequency (Lefebvre et al. 1997; Reader & Laland 2002) and tool use (Lefebvre et al. 2002; Reader & Laland 2002).”
Innovation and social learning: individual variation and brain evolution * (2003, unknown): “…measures such as tool use frequencies, enhanced rates of evolutionary divergence, and ecologically important factors such as the success of birds introduced to novel environments (Wyles et al., 1983; Timmermans et al., 2000; Lefebvre et al., 2002; Sol et al., 2002; Nicolakakis et al., 2003).”
Non-commercial Research and Educational Use including without Limitation Use in Instruction at Your Institution, Sending It to Specific Colleagues That You Know, and Providing a Copy to Your Institution's Administrator. All Other Uses, Reproduction and Distribution, including without Limitation Comm (2005, unknown): “Since the direct dipole–dipole couplings usually dominate the anisotropic NMR spectra, the number of independent intramolecular pair interactions is important.”
Cognitive abilities related to tool use in the woodpecker finch, Cactospiza pallida (2004, background): “Tool use is positively correlated with the size of the neostriatum ventrale and hyperstriatum ventrale, indicating that special cognitive abilities are related to this skill (Lefebvre et al. 2002).”
Animal tool use: current definitions and an updated comprehensive catalog (2010, methodology): “:P as se ri fo rm es A cr id ot he re s C re st ed ju ng le Y Y N Y C Po ul se n, 19 56 cr is ta te ll us m yn ah A11 Bentley-Condit & Smith (C on tin ue d. ) G en us sp ec ie s C om m on na m e N = 1?”
A Comparative Analysis of Social Play in Birds (2003, background): “…behavioral flexibility, and soci- ality (Ortega and Bekoff, 1987; Skutch, 1987), and these variables are to some degree intercorrelated with brain size (Bennett and Harvey, 1985a, b; Lefebvre et al., 2002, 2001, 1998, 1997; Sol and Lefebvre, 2000; Timmermans et al., 2000; Sol et al., 2002).”
Technical innovations drive the relationship between innovativeness and residual brain size in birds (2009, unknown): “Measures of cognition are often correlated with one another (Lefebvre et al. 2004), suggesting that selection may act on some measure of general intelligence rather than on innovativeness per se.”
Living in the city: can anyone become an ‘urban exploiter'? (2007, methodology): “Relative brain size covaries with several traits such that species that are sedentary (Sol et al., 2005b), are more behaviourally flexible (Lefebvre et al., 2002) and are more likely to be successful invaders (Sol et al., 2002) tend to have relatively large brains.”
Testing Problem Solving in Ravens: String-Pulling to Reach Food (2005, background): “Tool-use ability is correlated with enlargements of parts of the brain in primates (Reader & Laland 2002) and in birds (Lefebvre et al. 1997, 2002).”
Comparing the Complex Cognition of Birds and Primates (2004, background): “…functionally equivalent (analogous) structures to the mammalian neocortex (see next section), ones that may correlate with measures of higher cognition, such as feeding innovation (Lefebrve et al., 1997; Nicolakakis and Lefebvre, 2000; Timmermans et al., 2000) and tool use (Lefebvre et al., 2002).”
Complex relationship between multiple measures of cognitive ability and male mating success in satin bowerbirds, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus (2011, background): “Distinct from this line of research has been the finding across multiple taxonomic groups that species counts of feeding innovations are associated with other measures thought to indicate aspects of cognitive ability (Lefebvre et al. 2002; Reader & Laland 2002; Deaner et al. 2006).”