Sentence examples for leaf tools from inspiring English sources

To learn how crows craft these leaf tools, Gavin Hunt of the University of Auckland in New Zealand studied their raw materials.

For example, the construction of leaf tools in New Caledonian crows was assumed to be too complex a task to acquire without social influence until experiments showed that tools of surprising complexity could be produced by individuals reared in isolation (Kenward et al. 2006).

Cultural variation is the variation among social groups found in many social animals, from the leaf-tools of the New Caledonian crows and the sponge-tools of the Bottlenose dolphins, to termite-fishing in chimpanzees and the multitude of archeological tools and ornaments, dwellings and institutions of hominid societies (Laland and Janik 2006).

Lee's Art Shop is known for its traditional art supplies, as well as for all sorts of unusual crafts objects, from beads to leaf presses to tools for Ukrainian egg decorating.

The trace tool was then used to select each leaf and the Measure tool used to record the selected area.

Using the rectangular selection tool, each leaf was surrounded before calculating the area with the Analyze Particles command.

LAMINA [ 10], another 2D-image based tool for leaf shape and size probing proposes a leaf analysis for various plant species.

No, the luxurious thing is to hire a landscaping company, whose workers will swoop in with deafening leaf blowers and other power tools to make our grand estates almost comically immaculate.

I guess what I did to him wasn't very nice, but people who use leaf blowers on Sunday are tools of Satan and get exactly what they deserve.

I love, and always look forward to, working with my family of gasoline-powered yard tools: snow blower, leaf blower, hedge trimmer, lawn mower, edger, weed whacker, and two chain saws.

Now, for a more quantitative analysis, Hunt and two colleagues have gone back to New Caledonia and studied some 3700 leaf strips and outlines of tools cut from leaves.