Animal Tool Behavior
The Use and Manufacture of Tools by Animals
2nd Edition
Published on 27. June 2011
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-0-8018-9853-2 (ISBN)
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.
Reviews / Votes
Animal Tool Behavior is a read for a wide audience of individuals interested in understanding not only the range of behaviors of which non-human animals are capable, but also cognition, conceptualized both as a set of abilities and as an array of mental operations. -- Maura Pilotti Metapsychology Reading about how busy all these tool-users are is a delight, an introduction to a unique way of regarding a fascinating aspect of animal behavior. -- Rob Hardy The Dispatch Recommended. Choice A true encyclopedia of animal tool use and as such I highly recommend it for every library that serves zoologists and/or behavioral scientists as well as for major public libraries. -- Andrezej Elzanowski Acta Ornithologica I highly recommend this publication to anyone who is interested in animal behavior. It would be a wonderful textbook for advanced undergraduate courses and for graduate-level seminars in biology, psychology, and anthropology programs. -- Marc Bekoff Quarterly Review of Biology This book is a landmark publication that will stimulate, guide and advance animal tool-use research for decades to come... Brimming with exciting natural history and presented with admirable rigour and scholarship. -- Christian Rutz IbisMore details
Edition
revised and updated edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore, MD
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
94 s/w Abbildungen, 15 s/w Zeichnungen
15 Line drawings, black and white; 94 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
794 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8018-9853-2 (9780801898532)
DOI
10.1353/book.98237
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Other editions
New editions
Robert W. Shumaker | Kristina R. Walkup | Benjamin B. Beck
Animal Tool Behavior
The Use and Manufacture of Tools by Animals
Book
02/2025
3rd Edition
Johns Hopkins University Press
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Additional editions
Robert W. Shumaker | Kristina R. Walkup | Benjamin B. Beck
Animal Tool Behavior
The Use and Manufacture of Tools by Animals
E-Book
06/2011
2nd Edition
Johns Hopkins University Press
€50.99
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Persons
Robert W. Shumaker is the vice president of life sciences at the Indianapolis Zoo, the author of Orangutans, and coauthor, with Benjamin B. Beck, of Primates in Question. Kristina R. Walkup is an adjunct assistant professor at Drake University. Benjamin B. Beck is the director of conservation at Great Ape Trust.
Content
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
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