scholarly journals Tools and food on heat lamps: pyrocognitive sparks in New Caledonian crows?

Behaviour ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Ivo Jacobs ◽  
Auguste M.P. von Bayern ◽  
Mathias Osvath
Keyword(s):  
Heat Source ◽  
Human Evolution ◽  
Tool Use ◽  
Heat Sources ◽  
Time Budgets ◽  
Fire Use ◽  
Early Humans ◽  
New Caledonian Crows ◽  
Brain Expansion ◽  
Corvus Moneduloides

Abstract Fire has substantially altered the course of human evolution. Cooking kindled brain expansion through improved energy and time budgets. However, little is known about the origins of fire use and its cognitive underpinnings (pyrocognition). Debates on how hominins innovated cooking focus on archaeological findings, but should also be informed by the response of animals towards heat sources. Here, we report six observations on two captive New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides) contacting heat lamps with tools or placing raw food on them. The tools became singed or melted and the food had browned (and was removed). These results suggest that New Caledonian crows can use tools to investigate hot objects, which extends earlier findings that they use tools to examine potential hazards (pericular tool use), and place food on a heat source as play or exploration. Further research on animals will provide novel insights into the pyrocognitive origins of early humans.

scholarly journals Tool use by wild New Caledonian crows Corvus moneduloides at natural foraging sites

2010 ◽  
Vol 277 (1686) ◽  
pp. 1377-1385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucas A. Bluff ◽  
Jolyon Troscianko ◽  
Alex A. S. Weir ◽  
Alex Kacelnik ◽  
Christian Rutz
Keyword(s):  
Tool Use ◽  
New Caledonian Crows ◽  
Corvus Moneduloides

scholarly journals Decision-making flexibility in New Caledonian crows, young children and adult humans in a multi-dimensional tool-use task

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachael Miller ◽  
Romana Gruber ◽  
Anna Frohnwieser ◽  
Martina Schiestl ◽  
Sarah A. Jelbert ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Tool Use ◽  
Food Item ◽  
Work Effort ◽  
Pongo Abelii ◽  
Adult Humans ◽  
New Caledonian Crows ◽  
Multiple Variables ◽  
Corvus Moneduloides ◽  
Decision Making Tool

AbstractThe ability to make profitable decisions in natural foraging contexts may be influenced by an additional requirement of tool-use, due to increased levels of relational complexity and additional work-effort imposed by tool-use, compared with simply choosing between an immediate and delayed food item. We examined the flexibility for making the most profitable decisions in a multi-dimensional tool-use task, involving different apparatuses, tools and rewards of varying quality, in 3-5-year-old children, adult humans and tool-making New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides). We also compared our results to previous studies on habitually tool-making orangutans (Pongo abelii) and non-tool-making Goffin’s cockatoos (Cacatua goffiniana). Adult humans, cockatoos and crows, though not children and orangutans, did not select a tool when it was not necessary, which was the more profitable choice in this situation. Adult humans, orangutans and cockatoos, though not crows and children, were able to refrain from selecting non-functional tools. By contrast, the birds, though not primates tested, struggled to attend to multiple variables - where two apparatuses, two tools and two reward qualities were presented simultaneously - without extended experience. These findings indicate: (1) in a similar manner to humans and orangutans, New Caledonian crows and Goffin’s cockatoos can flexibly make profitable decisions in some decision-making tool-use tasks, though the birds may struggle when tasks become more complex; (2) children and orangutans may have a bias to use tools in situations where adults and other tool-making species do not.

scholarly journals Lateralization of tool use in New Caledonian crows ( Corvus moneduloides )

2004 ◽  
Vol 271 (suppl_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. A. S. Weir ◽  
B. Kenward ◽  
J. Chappell ◽  
A. Kacelnik
Keyword(s):  
Tool Use ◽  
New Caledonian Crows ◽  
Corvus Moneduloides

PLANETARY SELF-ORGANIZATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-282
Author(s):  
OLEG IVANOV
Keyword(s):  
Dynamical System ◽  
Heat Source ◽  
Mantle Convection ◽  
Plate Tectonics ◽  
Rotation Speed ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Heat Sources ◽  
Kinematic Parameters ◽  
The Earth ◽  
New Type

The general characteristics of planetary systems are described. Well-known heat sources of evolution are considered. A new type of heat source, variations of kinematic parameters in a dynamical system, is proposed. The inconsistency of the perovskite-post-perovskite heat model is proved. Calculations of inertia moments relative to the D boundary on the Earth are given. The 9 times difference allows us to claim that the sliding of the upper layers at the Earth's rotation speed variations emit heat by viscous friction.This heat is the basis of mantle convection and lithospheric plate tectonics.

Lateralized tool use in wild New Caledonian crows

2004 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 327-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robb Rutledge ◽  
Gavin R Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Tool Use ◽  
New Caledonian Crows

scholarly journals Analysis and Comparison of Some Low-Temperature Heat Sources for Heat Pumps

Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 1853 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pavel Neuberger ◽  
Radomír Adamovský
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Low Temperature ◽  
Heat Source ◽  
Heat Pump ◽  
Heat Exchangers ◽  
Ambient Air ◽  
Heat Transfer Fluid ◽  
Heat Sources ◽  
Ground Heat Exchangers ◽  
Temperature Heat

The efficiency of a heat pump energy system is significantly influenced by its low-temperature heat source. This paper presents the results of operational monitoring, analysis and comparison of heat transfer fluid temperatures, outputs and extracted energies at the most widely used low temperature heat sources within 218 days of a heating period. The monitoring involved horizontal ground heat exchangers (HGHEs) of linear and Slinky type, vertical ground heat exchangers (VGHEs) with single and double U-tube exchanger as well as the ambient air. The results of the verification indicated that it was not possible to specify clearly the most advantageous low-temperature heat source that meets the requirements of the efficiency of the heat pump operation. The highest average heat transfer fluid temperatures were achieved at linear HGHE (8.13 ± 4.50 °C) and double U-tube VGHE (8.13 ± 3.12 °C). The highest average specific heat output 59.97 ± 41.80 W/m2 and specific energy extracted from the ground mass 2723.40 ± 1785.58 kJ/m2·day were recorded at single U-tube VGHE. The lowest thermal resistance value of 0.07 K·m2/W, specifying the efficiency of the heat transfer process between the ground mass and the heat transfer fluid, was monitored at linear HGHE. The use of ambient air as a low-temperature heat pump source was considered to be the least advantageous in terms of its temperature parameters.

Development of Convective Heat Transfer Near Suddenly Heated, Vertically Aligned Horizontal Wires

1987 ◽  
Vol 109 (4) ◽  
pp. 912-918 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Parsons ◽  
M. L. Arey
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Source ◽  
Fluid Layer ◽  
Convective Motion ◽  
Transient Behavior ◽  
Temperature Fields ◽  
Heat Sources ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Vertically Aligned ◽  
The Wire

Experiments have been performed which describe the transient development of natural convective flow from both a single and two vertically aligned horizontal cylindrical heat sources. The temperature of the wire heat sources was monitored with a resistance bridge arrangement while the development of the flow field was observed optically with a Mach–Zehnder interferometer. Results for the single wire show that after an initial regime where the wire temperature follows pure conductive response to a motionless fluid, two types of fluid motion will begin. The first is characterized as a local buoyancy, wherein the heated fluid adjacent to the wire begins to rise. The second is the onset of global convective motion, this being governed by the thermal stability of the fluid layer immediately above the cylinder. The interaction of these two motions is dependent on the heating rate and relative heat capacities of the cylinder and fluid, and governs whether the temperature response will exceed the steady value during the transient (overshoot). The two heat source experiments show that the merging of the two developing temperature fields is hydrodynamically stabilizing and thermally insulating. For small spacing-to-diameter ratios, the development of convective motion is delayed and the heat transfer coefficients degraded by the proximity of another heat source. For larger spacings, the transient behavior approaches that of a single isolated cylinder.

Analytical Formulation for the Temperature Profile by Duhamel’s Theorem in Bodies Subjected to an Oscillatory Heat Source

2005 ◽  
Vol 129 (2) ◽  
pp. 236-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Wen ◽  
M. M. Khonsari
Keyword(s):  
Finite Element Method ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
Heat Source ◽  
Temperature Profile ◽  
Rectangular Domain ◽  
Temperature Fields ◽  
Heat Sources ◽  
Point Heat Source ◽  
Analytical Formulation ◽  
Analytical Technique

An analytical technique is presented for treating heat conduction problems involving a body experiencing oscillating heat flux on its boundary. The boundary heat flux is treated as a combination of many point heat sources, each of which emits heat intermittently based on the motion of the flux. The working function of the intermittent heat source with respect to time is evaluated by using the Fourier series and temperature profile of each point heat source is derived by using the Duhamel’s theorem. Finally, by superposition of the temperature fields over all the point heat sources, the temperature profile due to the original moving heat flux is determined. Prediction results and verification using finite element method are presented for an oscillatory heat flux in a rectangular domain.

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