Tool Use in Animals : Cognition and Ecology

Name: Tool Use in Animals
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781107011199
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ISBN: 9781107011199

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 1107011191

ISBN-13 9781107011199

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Mar 7th, 2013

Print length 324 Pages

Weight 718 grams

Dimensions 25.30 x 18.10 x 1.90 cms

Product Classification: Evolution Evolution / Evolutionary biology Animal behaviour Ethology and animal behaviour

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Appealing to both academic and public audiences, this collection of groundbreaking research looks at an extensive range of tool using animals. Contributions from leading scholars examine the cognitive abilities and environmental factors that have shaped the evolution of tool use in animals as distantly related as corvids and primates.

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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