{"id":4460,"date":"2015-11-03T11:24:57","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T16:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4460"},"modified":"2015-11-12T16:38:54","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T21:38:54","slug":"branching-out-of-the-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/branching-out-of-the-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Branching out of the family"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4461\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_3141-1024x681.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4461\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4461\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_3141-1024x681-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"A New Caledonian crow observes another using a stick to access insects for food. (Image credit: Jolyon Troscianko)\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_3141-1024x681-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_3141-1024x681.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4461\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wild New Caledonian crow observes another using a stick to access insects for food. (Image credit: Jolyon Troscianko)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Crows spend most of their social time with family members, but when they need a little extra help to get some food &#8211; they\u2019re not averse to enlisting others, according to researchers. New Caledonian crows are a clever group &#8211; a species known to use tools to get hard to reach food. Analyzing the activity and social interactions of 33 New Caledonian crows, the researchers found when there is a food source that requires a tool to exploit, these crows will leave their family group to interact with crows they\u2019d never associated with before.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nature.com\/articles\/doi:10.1038\/ncomms8197\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>Nature\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>November\u00a03<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0author<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>James St Clair,\u00a0Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crows spend most of their social time with family members, but when they need a little extra help to get some food &#8211; they\u2019re not averse to enlisting others, according to researchers. New Caledonian crows are a clever group &#8211; a species known to use tools to get hard to reach food. 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