Sentence examples for tabletop tools from inspiring English sources

Subjects also interacted with the tabletop tools on fewer Length-Only trials, indicating that they perceived this condition as distinct.

It is likely that they recognized that tools were now within beak range and therefore the attractiveness of the tabletop tools was reduced (although not entirely eliminated).

Tabletop tools were placed midway between the tool- and food-frames, rather than closer to the food apparatus as in Experiment 1.

During Sequential trials the tabletop tools had played an integral role in success (by extracting food or tools) on all conditions, whereas in Length-Only trials they were only suitable for retrieving the food on a third of the trials.

Ignoring the tabletop tools, which could only reach the food on one-third of the trials, and going straight to pick out a longer tool, is in fact quite an efficient strategy.

Two tabletop tools (5 and 7 cm long), also made of dowel and with a crosspiece at either end, were provided on every trial; only the 7 cm tool was long enough to reach food or other tools.

We only considered exchanges between extracted tools, rather than between the tabletop tool and an extracted tool, since by definition the latter swaps would always be positive.

We investigated whether subjects attended to the position of the food by examining whether they first probed for tools or food with the tabletop tool in different conditions.

We investigated whether subjects attended to the position of the food by examining whether their first probe with the tabletop tool was aimed at tools or at food.

All three inexperienced crows obtained food with the tabletop tool where this was possible, but failed in all tasks where tools had to be extracted (Table 2).

Crows preferentially chose the correct, longer tabletop tool on almost every trial (Corbeau: 90%; Pierre: 92%; Uek: 88%; binomial tests: p<0.001 for all), with little variation across conditions.