Book 2011

Animal Tool Behavior

Robert W. Shumaker Kristina R. Walkup Benjamin B Beck Gordon M. Burghardt

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Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Language: English
Published: 2011

Tool use in animals
Animal behavior
Discrimination Learning
Tool Use Behavior
Animals

Provides a "complete catalog of all reported cases of tool use and manufacture by extant non-human animals" including cases of imitation and emulation. Only some cases resulting from intentional operant conditioning by humans are considered.