Means to an end: Neotropical parrots manage to pull strings to meet their goals

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Animal Cognition

• Publication date

  2009-03-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1007/s10071-008-0190-zPMID 18766389
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