Rooks Use Stones to Raise the Water Level to Reach a Floating Worm

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Rooks Use Stones to Raise the Water Level to Reach a Floating Worm Christopher David Bird, Nathan John Emery  Current Biology  Volume 19, Issue 16, Pages 1410-1414 (August 2009) DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.07.033 Copyright © 2009 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions

Figure 1 Diagram of Apparatus (A) Setup used in experiment 1 and experiment 2. Sections (1) and (2) are clear Perspex; (3) water; (4) waxworm; (5) pile of stones. Ten large stones were used for experiment 1; five large stones and five small stones were used for experiment 2. (B) Photograph of experiment 3 setup. The tube at left contains sawdust; the tube at right contains water. (The position of tubes was pseudorandomized during the experiment.) Current Biology 2009 19, 1410-1414DOI: (10.1016/j.cub.2009.07.033) Copyright © 2009 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions

Figure 2 Experiment 1 Results Graphs showing significant correlation between the number of stones required for success and the total number of stones used per trial (A) (r2 = 0.88, F1,61 = 460.38, p = 0.000) or the number of stones used before first attempting to reach the worm (B) (r2 = 0.63, F1,61 = 104.16, p = 0.000). Data points show mean; error bars show standard error of the mean. Line indicates linear regression. Current Biology 2009 19, 1410-1414DOI: (10.1016/j.cub.2009.07.033) Copyright © 2009 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions

Figure 3 Experiment 2 Trial-by-Trial Description of Behavior Subjects were successful if they used at least three large stones or a combination of two large stones and at least four small stones. (Note that Monroe was successful on trial 4 despite using one fewer small stone than needed and that Cook was successful on trial 7 despite using one fewer large stone than needed. This may be a result of experimental error, although it is also possible that the birds managed to stretch further into the tube than usual on these trials.) Current Biology 2009 19, 1410-1414DOI: (10.1016/j.cub.2009.07.033) Copyright © 2009 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions

Figure 4 Experiment 3 Trial-by-Trial Description of Behavior Subjects were successful if they placed at least three stones into the water. (Note that if subjects dropped three stones into the sawdust, they could reach the last stone dropped in and correct their mistake by switching it to the water. Monroe and Cook eventually succeeded on trial 16 and trial 3, respectively, by doing this. Also note that Monroe was not successful on trial 8, because some of the water splashed out of the tube.) Current Biology 2009 19, 1410-1414DOI: (10.1016/j.cub.2009.07.033) Copyright © 2009 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions