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010 $a 2012034006
020 $a9781107011199
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050 00 $aQL785$b.T77 2013
082 00 $a569/.8$223
084 $aSCI070050$2bisacsh
245 00 $aTool use in animals :$bcognition and ecology /$cedited by Crickette 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.
264 1 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2013.
300 $ax, 313 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"The last decade has witnessed remarkable discoveries and advances in our understanding of the tool using behaviour of animals. Wild populations of capuchin monkeys have been observed to crack open nuts with stone tools, similar to the skills of chimpanzees and humans. Corvids have been observed to use and make tools that rival in complexity the behaviours exhibited by the great apes. Excavations of the nut cracking sites of chimpanzees have been dated to around 4-5 thousand years ago. Tool Use in Animals collates these and many more contributions by leading scholars in psychology, biology and anthropology, along with supplementary online materials, into a comprehensive assessment of the cognitive abilities and environmental forces shaping these behaviours in taxa as distantly related as primates and corvids"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: List of contributors; Part I. Cognition of Tool Use: 1. Three ingredients for becoming a creative tool-user J. Call; 2. Ecology and cognition of tool use in chimpanzees C. Boesch; 3. Chimpanzees plan their tool use R. W. Byrne, C. M. Sanz and D. B. Morgan; Part II. Comparative Cognition: 4. Insight, imagination and invention: tool understanding in a non-tool-using corvid N. Emery; 5. Why is tool use rare in animals? G. Hunt, R. Gray and A. Taylor; 6. Understanding differences in the way human and non-human primates represent tools: the role of teleological-intentional information A. M. Ruiz and L. R. Santos; 7. Why do woodpecker finches use tools? S. Tebbich; Part III. Ecology and Culture: 8. The social context of chimpanzee tool use C. M. Sanz and D. B. Morgan; 9. Orangutan tool use and the evolution of technology E. J. M. Meulman and C. P. van Schaik; 10. The EthoCebus project: stone tool use by wild capuchin monkeys E. Visalberghi and D. Fragaszy; Part IV. Archaeological Perspectives: 11. From pounding to knapping: how chimpanzees can help us model hominin lithics S. Carvalho, T. Matsuzawa and W. C. McGrew; 12. Early hominin social learning strategies underlying the use and production of bone and stone tools M. Caruana, F. d'Errico and L. Backwell; 13. Perspectives on stone tools and cognition in the early paleolithic record S. P. McPherron; Index.
650 0 $aTool use in animals.
650 0 $aPrimates$xBehavior.
650 7 $aSCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Primatology.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aSanz, Crickette Marie,$d1975-$eeditor of compilation.
700 1 $aCall, Josep,$eeditor of compilation.
700 1 $aBoesch, Christophe,$eeditor of compilation.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1215/2012034006-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1215/2012034006-d.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1215/2012034006-t.html