Carl,
You have pretty much quoted the article verbatim. I couldn't find any
citations on google scholar.
The source document is indeed
Douglas Lockwood (1962) "I, the aboriginal" Adelaide : Rigby
Note
Written from interview with Philip Roberts (Waipuldanya or Wadjiri-
Wadjiri)
Regards, Laurie.
On 13/05/2009, at 4:11 PM, Carl Clifford wrote:
Dear All,
The following was posted on the WildbirdSingapore group and is said
to be from an Etnoornithology forum.
A Remarkable Case of Tool-Using in a Bird
Author(s): Ashley Montagu
Source: American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 72, No. 3 (Jun.,
1970), p. 610
Published by: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the American
Anthropological Association
Stable URL: http://www.jstor. org/stable/ 673006
Accessed: 11/05/2009 12:34
Accepted for publication 18 February 1970.
To the growing list of tool-users among animals other than man
should be added the Northern Territory kitehawk or, as he is called
among the aborigines of that part of Australia, the firehawk. In the
fascinating book about his life, I, The Aboriginal (Ade- laide:
Griffin, 1962), written down by Douglas Lockwood, Waipuldanya, an
abori- ginal of the Alawa tribe at Roper River, says, "I have seen a
hawk pick up a smoul- dering stick in its claws and drop it in a
fresh patch of dry grass half a mile away, then wait with its mates
for the mad exodus of scorched and frightened rodents and rep-
tiles. When that area was burnt out the pro- cess was repeated
elsewhere. We call these fires Jaluran" (p. 93). Is this, possibly,
the first recorded case of the use of fire by a nonhuman animal?
I presume the kitehawk is the Whistling Kite, as Kite Hawk appears
to be one of its alternative common names. Has anyone ever heard of
this behaviour? Perhaps some-one with access to JSTOR could read the
article and let me know what they think? Perhaps one of the loacls
was pulling the leg of the Anthropologist.
Cheers,
Carl Clifford
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