The ecology of tool-use in the woodpecker finch (Cactospiza pallida)

By S. Tebbich, M. Taborsky, B. Fessl, M. Dvorak. 2002

113 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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Citations in the corpus

• Stone tool use in wild bearded capuchin monkeys, Cebus libidinosus. Is it a strategy to overcome food scarcity? (2012, background): “Even more pronounced is the role played by tools for the woodpecker finches living in the arid zone in the Galapagos Islands: these birds spend almost 50% of their foraging time using tools (Tebbich et al. 2002).”
• Technical innovations drive the relationship between innovativeness and residual brain size in birds (2009, unknown): “Indeed, nontool-using species of birds are able to solve complex physical tasks in laboratory settings (Tebbich et al. 2007), and even tool-using species may only use tools when the ecological conditions are appropriate (Tebbich et al. 2002).”
• Development of tool use in New Caledonian crows: inherited action patterns and social influences (2006, background): “If they were, we would not see inherited action patterns that must have evolved through selection and that are crucial in sustaining tool-oriented behaviour in adult crows (see Tebbich et al. 2002 for an investigation of this issue in the woodpecker finch).”
• Cognitive abilities related to tool use in the woodpecker finch, Cactospiza pallida (2004, background): “In the arid zone during the dry season, woodpecker finches spend half their foraging time using tools and obtain 50% of their prey this way (Tebbich et al. 2002).”
• Animal tool use: current definitions and an updated comprehensive catalog (2010, unknown): “…observations may have missed population-specific tool use due to the specific individuals or classes of individuals observed (see, for example, Tebbich et al. (2002) on locale-specific tool use by Cactospiza pallida and Higuchi (1988) on individual variation in Butorides striata tool use…”
• Intelligence in Corvids and Apes: A Case of Convergent Evolution? (2009, background): “It is most common in coastal zones, where harsh and unpredictable conditions are seen Ethology 115 (2009) 401–420 ª 2009 Blackwell Verlag GmbH 405 in conjunction with the availability of particularly large grubs embedded in tree holes (Tebbich et al. 2002).”