期刊
ANIMAL COGNITION
卷 14, 期 4, 页码 555-563出版社
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-011-0390-9
关键词
Tool-use; Cactospiza pallida; Trap tube; Folk physics; Physical cognition; Causality; Darwin's finches
资金
- German research foundation (DFG) [TE628/1-1]
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [V95-B17]
- Charles Darwin Research Station
The trap tube is a classic test of causal reasoning abilities in animals in the physical domain. Recently, a modified version of this task improved its diagnostic capacity and allowed testing of non-tool-using animals. We used this modified two-trap tube task to compare the cognition of two Darwin's finch species: the woodpecker finch, Cactospiza pallida, a tool-using species, and the small tree finch, Camarhynchus parvulus, a closely related non-tool-using species. Not all woodpecker finches use tools in nature, and we therefore also tested non-tool-using individuals to assess the effect of experience on trap tube performance. No small tree finches and only two non-tool-using woodpecker finches solved the initial task which was operated using a pre-inserted piston. One tool-using woodpecker finch solved the task when allowed to use its own tool instead of the pre-inserted piston. The fact that none of these subjects transferred their knowledge when the features of the task changed, suggests that in this species, neither experience using tools nor the genetic composition of a tool-user are associated with the general physical cognitive skills required to solve the trap tube task.
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