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Tool Use in Animals: Cognition and Ecology

Tool Use in Animals: Cognition and Ecology

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AnthropologyGeologyZoology

ISBN10: 1107657431
ISBN13: 9781107657434
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Mar 6 2014
Pages: 324
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English
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 observed to use and make tools that rival in complexity the behaviours exhibited by the great apes. Excavations of the nut cracking sites of chimpanzees have been dated to around 4-5 thousand years ago. Tool Use in Animals collates these and many more contributions by leading scholars in psychology, biology and anthropology, along with supplementary online materials, into a comprehensive assessment of the cognitive abilities and environmental forces shaping these behaviours in taxa as distantly related as primates and corvids.

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