Sentence examples for stick tool from inspiring English sources

In the human brain, peri-personal space [1] is represented by embedding the spatial volume of external objects, such as a hat (clothing) or a stick (tool), into an internal body map [2].

Observation of partner's struggle to obtain the juice without the use of a tool (only observed in the stick tool situation) did not elicit voluntary tool transfer.

In the present study, even when the chimpanzees observed their conspecific partner unsuccessfully struggle to reach the juice container without a stick tool, the tool possessor often failed to offer the tool voluntarily unless explicitly requested.

Behavioural actions during hooked stick tool manufacture.

(PDF 203 kb) Additional file 3: Movie 2. Behavioural actions of hooked stick tool manufacture – Modifications.

The latter technique enables crows to manufacture a functional, albeit crude, hooked stick tool with a single behavioural action.

"In the past everybody thought they mainly used stick tools to fish for large beetle larvae in rotting wood," Dr. Rutz said.

But researchers report today that Figaro, a member of a captive colony of the birds in Austria, invents and uses stick tools of his own design.

Figaro, a Goffin's cockatoo (Cacatua goffini) housed at a research lab in Austria, stunned scientists a few years ago when he began spontaneously making stick tools from the wooden beams of his aviary.

Crows manufacture hooked stick tools in a multi-stage process, involving the detachment of a branch from suitable vegetation; "sculpting" of a terminal hook from the nodal joint; and often additional adjustments, such as length trimming, shaft bending, and bark stripping [4, 6, 7].

Thirty-seven of the manufactured tools were hooked stick tools, and five were non-hooked stick tools.