Tool Use in Animals
Tool Use in Animals

Author: Crickette M. Sanz

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-03-07

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1107328373

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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.

Animal Tool Behavior
Animal Tool Behavior

Author: Robert W. Shumaker

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2011-05-02

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1421401282

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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.

Tool Use in Animals
Tool Use in Animals

Author: Crickette M. Sanz

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-03-07

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1107011191

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Presentation of groundbreaking research on an extensive range of tool using animals, looking particularly at the evolution of cognitive abilities.

The Animal Toolkit
The Animal Toolkit

Author: Steve Jenkins

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2022-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0358244447

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Featuring cut-paper illustrations, this picture book teaches young readers all about what makes a tool a tool--and the remarkable ways animals use them to interact with the world.

Use of Laboratory Animals in Biomedical and Behavioral Research
Use of Laboratory Animals in Biomedical and Behavioral Research

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 1988-02-01

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 0309038391

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Scientific experiments using animals have contributed significantly to the improvement of human health. Animal experiments were crucial to the conquest of polio, for example, and they will undoubtedly be one of the keystones in AIDS research. However, some persons believe that the cost to the animals is often high. Authored by a committee of experts from various fields, this book discusses the benefits that have resulted from animal research, the scope of animal research today, the concerns of advocates of animal welfare, and the prospects for finding alternatives to animal use. The authors conclude with specific recommendations for more consistent government action.

Animal Play
Animal Play

Author: Marc Bekoff

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998-06-04

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9780521586566

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Animal Play, first published in 1998, is an interdisciplinary study of play in animals and humans.

Orangutan Hats and Other Tools Animals Use
Orangutan Hats and Other Tools Animals Use

Author: Richard Haynes

Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)

Published: 2021-04-13

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 9781536200935

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Elephants that remove ticks with sticks? Otters that crack open their lunch with rocks? Crows that slide down a roof on a jar lid--over and over? Take a fascinating look at the use of tools by animals around the world. Move over, humans! We're not the only creatures who can invent and use tools to keep ourselves fed, warm, safe, healthy, comfortable--even entertained. Thanks to the careful observations of biologists working in the field, we now know that elephants use sunscreen, long-tailed macaques floss their teeth, assassin bugs use bait to lure their prey, orangutans make pillows, and crows will go sledding just for fun. Who's the clever one now, eh? Join writer Richard Haynes and illustrator Stephanie Laberis for a walk on the wild side and get ready to be astonished, delighted, and amused by this jam-packed exploration. Interested readers will find a map, an introduction, a glossary, an index, and a bibliography for further investigation.

Avian Cognition
Avian Cognition

Author: Carel ten Cate

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-06-22

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 1107092388

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An overview of current research and experimental approaches in avian cognition and how this relates to other species.

Animal Experimentation: Working Towards a Paradigm Change
Animal Experimentation: Working Towards a Paradigm Change

Author: Kathrin Herrmann

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-04-30

Total Pages: 749

ISBN-13: 9004391193

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Animal experimentation has been one of the most controversial areas of animal use, mainly due to the intentional harms inflicted upon animals for the sake of hoped-for benefits in humans. Despite this rationale for continued animal experimentation, shortcomings of this practice have become increasingly more apparent and well-documented. However, these limitations are not yet widely known or appreciated, and there is a danger that they may simply be ignored. The 51 experts who have contributed to Animal Experimentation: Working Towards a Paradigm Change critically review current animal use in science, present new and innovative non-animal approaches to address urgent scientific questions, and offer a roadmap towards an animal-free world of science.

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

Author: Frans de Waal

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2016-04-25

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 0393246191

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A New York Times bestseller: "A passionate and convincing case for the sophistication of nonhuman minds." —Alison Gopnik, The Atlantic Hailed as a classic, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? explores the oddities and complexities of animal cognition—in crows, dolphins, parrots, sheep, wasps, bats, chimpanzees, and bonobos—to reveal how smart animals really are, and how we’ve underestimated their abilities for too long. Did you know that octopuses use coconut shells as tools, that elephants classify humans by gender and language, and that there is a young male chimpanzee at Kyoto University whose flash memory puts that of humans to shame? Fascinating, entertaining, and deeply informed, de Waal’s landmark work will convince you to rethink everything you thought you knew about animal—and human—intelligence.