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started by Margie Holub on 28 Apr 13
started by Margie Holub on 28 Apr 13
started by Margie Holub on 28 Apr 13
started by Margie Holub on 28 Apr 13
Dr Crickette Sanz, Dr Josep Call and Professor Christophe Boesch
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It positions New Caledonian Crows as ideal . And, as a testament to the incredibly wide-ranging appeal of these most amazing and important nonhuman animal ( animal ) beings, two must read books have just been published. . and use tools to make other tools . alternative cognitive strategies used to deal with the problems and obstacles that recurred in our evolutionary past . He says: "The somatotopic ;map ; of a . I think that an ecological task analysis and the related experimental techniques have a lot to add to this exploration of tool use in our closest relatives. Apes aren ;t the only primates to use tools | Laelaps" Tool use " was once considered one of the primary factors that made Homo sapiens distinct from all other animals , but Jane Goodall ;s studies of Chimpanzees at Gombe and subsequent research among living apes has shown that . Parrots . His point is that many animals may have evolved all the cognitive abilities necessary to use tools without ever . This is the best book on animal cognition I've ever come across. The Thoughtful Animal HomeAboutContact . Ecological Art: What Do We Do Now? | nonsite.orgA veritable explosion of work in areas such as cognitive ethology and field ecology has called into question our ability to use the old saws of anthropocentrism (language, tool use , the inheritance of cultural behaviors, and so on) to separate . with chimps. and cooperation and other-regarding behavior in animals,. Whether or not each species taps into this capacity for tool use may depend on their ecology (22, 32). and Delius, J.D..Notes from Two Scientific Psychologists: Review: Louise Barrett ;s . Primate cognition; Tool use by animals; Vocal learning; Intelligence: Bird; Cat; Cephalopod. Recently, when a group of sperm whales about a thousand miles off the coast of Lisbon, Portugal, took in an adult bottlenose dolphin, behavioral ecologists were puzzled. The Genius of Dogs and The Hidden Life of Wolves | Psychology . There are also quite a few books about the thesis of the ;extended mind ; (Clark & Chalmers, 1998) ; the idea that cognition quite literally extends into our bodies and environments, in terms of the tools we use and the objects we interact with. Exploring such art in his book The Postmodern Animal , art historian Steve Baker puts the matter this way: "the animal is a reminder of the limits of human understanding and influence, but also the value of working at those limits. . Given that these three are all