title: Goffin's cockatoos make the same tool type from different materials.
abstract: Innovative tool manufacture is rare and hard to isolate in animals. We show that an Indonesian generalist parrot, the Goffin's cockatoo, can flexibly and spontaneously transfer the manufacture of stick-type tools across three different materials. Each material required different manipulation patterns, including substrates that required active sculpting for achieving a functional, elongated shape.
authors.affiliation: Messerli Research Institute, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Medical University of Vienna, University of Vienna, Veterinärplatz 1, 1210 Vienna, Austria alice.auersperg@vetmeduni.ac.at.
authors.forename: Alice M I
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-7405-9791
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Auersperg
authors.affiliation: Department of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, Althanstr 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Borasinski
authors.affiliation: Department of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, Althanstr 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: Isabelle
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Laumer
authors.affiliation: Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, OX1 3PS Oxford, UK.
authors.forename: Alex
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kacelnik
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D046410:Cockatoos / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D053001:Tool Use Behavior
keywords: innovation; parrot; tool manufacture