Tool use in animals : cognition and ecology

Tool use in animals : cognition and ecology / edited by Crickette M. Sanz, Washington University, St Louis, USA ; Josep Call, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany ; Christophe Boesch, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.

"The last decade has witnessed remarkable discoveries and advances in our understanding of the tool using behaviour of animals. Wild populations of capuchin monkeys have been observed to crack open nuts with stone tools, similar to the skills of chimpanzees and humans. Corvids have been observe...

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Other Authors: Sanz, Crickette Marie, 1975- (Editor), Call, Josep (Editor), Boesch, Christophe (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Animal > 2017 > Bildband
Tool use in animals.
Primates > Behavior.
Cognition.
cognition.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > Primatology.
NATURE > Fossils.
Cognition
Primates > Behavior
Tool use in animals
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Cognition of tool use. 1. Three ingredients for becoming a creative tool user / Josep Call ; 2. Ecology and cognition of tool use in chimpanzees / Christophe Boesch ; 3. Chimpanzees plan their tool use / Richard W. Byrne, Crickette M. Sanz and David B. Morgan
  • Part II. Comparative cognition. 4. Insight, imagination and invention : tool understanding in a non-tool-using corvid / Nathan J. Emery ; 5. Why is tool use rare in animals? / Gavin R. Hunt, Russell D. Gray and Alex H. Taylor ; 6. Understanding differences in the way human and non-human primates represent tools: the role of teleological-intentional information / April M. Ruiz and Laurie R. Santos ; 7. Why do woodpecker finches use tools? / Sabine Tebbich and Irmgard Teschke
  • Part III. Ecology and culture. 8. The social context of chimpanzee tool use / Crickette M. Sanz and David B. Morgan ; 9. Orangutan tool use and the evolution of technology / Ellen J.M. Meulman and Carel P. van Schaik ; 10. The Etho-Cebus Project : stone-tool use by wild capuchin monkeys / Elisabetta Visalberghi and Dorothy Fragaszy
  • Part IV. Archaeological perspectives. 11. From pounding to knapping: how chimpanzees can help us model hominin lithics / Susana Carvalho, Tetsuro Matsuzawa and William C. McGrew ; 12. Early hominin social learning strategies underlying the use and production of bone and stone tools / Matthew V. Caruana, Francesco d'Errico and Lucinda Backwell ; 13. Perspectives on stone tools and cognition in the early Paleolithic record / Shannon P. McPherron.

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