{"fact":"New Caledonian crows are expert toolmakers but seem to rely on a 'mental template matching' process rather than complex social learning.  They observe a tool, create a mental image, and then reverse-engineer it.","context":"Instead, recent work suggests that CTC in this species is best explained by a form of\nreverse engineering (or goal emulation), which we termed ‘mental template\nmatching’ (Logan et al. 2015, Jelbert et al. 2018).","source":"Alex H. Taylor; Sarah Jelbert, The crow in the room: New Caledonian crows offer insight into the necessary and sufficient conditions for cumulative cultural evolution, 10.1017/s0140525x20000102","index":527}