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Review of Tool Use in Animals: Cognition and Ecology

In 1960, Jane Goodall observed chimpanzees strip off leaves from small twigs and use them to fish for termites in the ground at Gombe National Park. This discovery has led to a fundamental change in how we think about what makes us human: tool use was no longer considered uniquely human. Ever since, the use and, even more so, the manufacture of tools by non-human animals has continued to fascinate researchers and laymen alike. Tool Use in Animals: Cognition and Ecology aims to ‘provide a comprehensive assessment of the cognitive abilities and environmental forces shaping these behaviours’. Accordingly, the different contributions appear to be centred on two questions: firstly, a cognitive question: ‘Are tool users smarter than non-tool users?’ and secondly, an ecological question: ‘Why is tool use rare in non-human animals?’.

tool use, physical cognition

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