Animal tool use

Stephanie Musgrave; Crickette Sanz

doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-809633-8.90154-7

Animal tool use

Stephanie Musgrave
, Crickette Sanz

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Abstract

Tool use has been documented across a wide range of animal taxa, but is nonetheless rare. The flexible use of tools and their manufacture are even more limited. Over the past fifty years, a combination of observational and experimental approaches have advanced our understanding of the cognitive underpinnings of animal tool use and how these skills are maintained in such diverse lineages across the animal kingdom. Comparative studies identifying the ecological, developmental, and social correlates of tool use in animals have provided an important vantage on the evolution of technology and material culture in the human lineage.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior
Publisher	Elsevier
Pages	310-317
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9780128132517
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-809633-8.90154-7
State	Published - Jan 1 2019

Keywords

Causality
Cognition
Corvid
Culture
Extractive foraging
Innovation
Material culture
Object manipulation
Ontogeny
Perception-action model
Planning
Primate
Social learning
Tool manufacture
tool use

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