Animal Tool Behavior
The Use and Manufacture of Tools by Animals
2nd Edition
Published on 27. June 2011
304 pages
978-1-4214-0128-7 (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.
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.
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Edition
revised and updated edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
15 s/w Zeichnungen, 94 s/w Abbildungen
15 Line drawings, black and white; 94 Illustrations, black and white
File size
11,28 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4214-0128-7 (9781421401287)
DOI
10.1353/book.98237
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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
Book
06/2011
2nd Edition
Johns Hopkins University Press
€91.31
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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
