How to Report Anecdotal Observations? A New Approach Based on a Lesson From "Puffin Tool Use".

Front Psychol · 2020 · PMC7606989 · PMID 33192808

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Although, at the time of writing there is an open call for researchers of animal behavior by one of the oldest journal of the field “BEHAVIOR” to report “anecdotal evidence of unique behavior” (Kret and Roth, 2020 ), nowadays we see a decreasing trend of reporting anecdotes in scientific journals (Ramsay and Teichroeb, 2019 ).

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