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Animal Tool Behavior: The Use and Manufacture of Tools by Animals revised and updated edition


Animal Tool Behavior: The Use and Manufacture of Tools by Animals revised and updated edition

Hardback by Shumaker, Robert W. (VP of Life Sciences); Walkup, Kristina R. (Iowa State U., Drake U., and the Des Moines Area Community College); Beck, Benjamin B. (Director of Conservation, Great Ape Trust); Burghardt, Gordon M. (Alumni Distinguished Service Professor, University of Tennessee)

Animal Tool Behavior: The Use and Manufacture of Tools by Animals

£57.50

ISBN:
9780801898532
Publication Date:
27 Jun 2011
Edition/language:
revised and updated edition / English
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages:
304 pages
Format:
Hardback
For delivery:
New product available - 9781421450292
Animal Tool Behavior: The Use and Manufacture of Tools by Animals

Description

When published in 1980, Benjamin B. Beck's Animal Tool Behavior was the first volume to catalog and analyze the complete literature on tool use and manufacture in non-human animals. Beck showed that animals-from insects to primates-employed different types of tools to solve numerous problems. His work inspired and energized legions of researchers to study the use of tools by a wide variety of species. In this revised and updated edition of the landmark publication, Robert W. Shumaker and Kristina R. Walkup join Beck to reveal the current state of knowledge regarding animal tool behavior. Through a comprehensive synthesis of the studies produced through 2010, the authors provide an updated and exact definition of tool use, identify new modes of use that have emerged in the literature, examine all forms of tool manufacture, and address common myths about non-human tool use. Specific examples involving invertebrates, birds, fish, and mammals describe the differing levels of sophistication of tool use exhibited by animals.

Contents

Foreword, by Gordon M. Burghardt Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Invertebrates 3. Fish, Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds 4. Non-Primate Mammals 5. Prosimians and Monkeys 6. Apes 7. Seven Myths References Index

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