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more information – www.cambridge.org/9781107011199 Tool Usein Animals CognitionandEcology The last decade has witnessed remarkable discoveries and advances in our under- standingofthetool-usingbehaviorofanimals.Wildpopulationsofcapuchinmonkeys have been observed to crack open nuts with stone tools, similar to the skills of chimpanzees and humans. Corvids have been observed to use and make tools that rivalincomplexitythebehaviorsexhibitedbythegreatapes.Excavationsofthenut- cracking sitesof chimpanzeeshave beendated to around4000–5000 years ago.Tool Use in Animals collates these and many more contributions by leading scholars in psychology, biology and anthropology, along with supplementary online materials (availableatwww.cambridge.org/9781107011199),intoacomprehensiveassessment ofthecognitiveabilitiesandenvironmentalforcesshapingthesebehaviorsintaxaas distantlyrelatedasprimatesandcorvids. Crickette M. Sanz is an assistant professor in anthropology at Washington University, St.Louis,wheresheteachescoursesonprimatebehaviorandhumanevolution.Sheisone of the principal investigators of the Goualougo Triangle Ape Project, which focuses on studying and conserving sympatric central chimpanzee and western lowland gorilla populations. Josep Call is a comparative psychologist specializing in primate cognition at the Max PlanckInstituteforEvolutionaryAnthropology.Heistheco-founderanddirectorofthe WolfgangKohlerPrimateResearchCenter.Hisworkfocusesonthestudyoftheproblem- solvingabilitiesofprimatesandotheranimals. ChristopheBoeschisthedirectoroftheMaxPlanckInstituteofEvolutionaryAnthropology’s Primatologydepartment.Hisworkcoversmanyareasofchimpanzeebiology,whichhehas usedtofurtherunderstandingoftheevolutionofcognitiveandculturalabilitiesinhumans. HeisalsothefounderandpresidentoftheWildChimpanzeeFoundation. Tool Use in Animals Cognition and Ecology Edited by CRICKETTE M. SANZ WashingtonUniversity,St.Louis,USA JOSEP CALL MaxPlanckInstituteforEvolutionaryAnthropology,Leipzig,Germany CHRISTOPHE BOESCH MaxPlanckInstituteforEvolutionaryAnthropology,Leipzig,Germany cambridge university press Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown, Singapore,SãoPaulo,Delhi,MexicoCity CambridgeUniversityPress TheEdinburghBuilding,CambridgeCB28RU,UK PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYork www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107011199 ©CambridgeUniversityPress2013 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2013 PrintedandboundintheUnitedKingdombytheMPGBooksGroup AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloguinginPublicationdata Tooluseinanimals:cognitionandecology/editedbyCricketteSanz,WashingtonUniversity, StLouis,USA;JosepCall,MaxPlanckInstituteforEvolutionaryAnthropology,Leipzig,Germany; ChristopheBoesch,MaxPlanckInstituteforEvolutionaryAnthropology,Leipzig,Germany. pages cm Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-1-107-01119-9 1. Tooluseinanimals. 2. Primates–Behavior. I. Sanz,CricketteMarie,1975–editor ofcompilation. II. Call,Josep,editorofcompilation. III. Boesch,Christophe,editorofcompilation. 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Contents Listofcontributors pagevii PartI Cognitionoftooluse 1 1 Threeingredientsforbecomingacreativetooluser 3 JosepCall 2 Ecologyandcognitionoftooluseinchimpanzees 21 ChristopheBoesch 3 Chimpanzeesplantheirtooluse 48 RichardW.Byrne,CricketteM.SanzandDavidB.Morgan PartII Comparativecognition 65 4 Insight,imaginationandinvention:Toolunderstanding inanon-tool-usingcorvid 67 NathanJ.Emery 5 Whyistooluserareinanimals? 89 GavinR.Hunt,RussellD.GrayandAlexH.Taylor 6 Understandingdifferencesinthewayhumanandnon-humanprimates representtools:Theroleofteleological-intentionalinformation 119 AprilM.RuizandLaurieR.Santos 7 Whydowoodpeckerfinchesusetools? 134 SabineTebbichandIrmgardTeschke PartIII Ecologyandculture 159 8 Thesocialcontextofchimpanzeetooluse 161 CricketteM.SanzandDavidB.Morgan 9 Orangutantooluseandtheevolutionoftechnology 176 EllenJ.M.MeulmanandCarelP.vanSchaik vi Contents 10 TheEtho-CebusProject:Stone-toolusebywildcapuchinmonkeys 203 ElisabettaVisalberghiandDorothyFragaszy PartIV Archaeologicalperspectives 223 11 Frompoundingtoknapping:Howchimpanzeescanhelp ustomodelhomininlithics 225 SusanaCarvalho,TetsuroMatsuzawaandWilliamC.McGrew 12 Earlyhomininsociallearningstrategiesunderlyingtheuse andproductionofboneandstonetools 242 MatthewV.Caruana,Francescod’ErricoandLucindaBackwell 13 PerspectivesonstonetoolsandcognitionintheearlyPaleolithicrecord 286 ShannonP.McPherron Index 310 Contributors LucindaBackwell BernardPriceInstituteforPalaeontologicalResearch UniversityoftheWitwatersrand Johannesburg SouthAfrica ChristopheBoesch DepartmentofPrimatology MaxPlanckInstituteforEvolutionaryAnthropology Leipzig Germany RichardW.Byrne CentreforSocialLearningandCognitiveEvolution ScottishPrimateResearchGroup SchoolofPsychologyandNeuroscience UniversityofSt.Andrews St.Andrews UK JosepCall DepartmentofDevelopmentalandComparativePsychology MaxPlanckInstituteforEvolutionaryAnthropology Leipzig Germany MatthewV.Caruana BernardPriceInstituteforPalaeontologicalResearch UniversityoftheWitwatersrand Johannesburg SouthAfrica SusanaCarvalho LeverhulmeCentreforHumanEvolutionaryStudies UniversityofCambridge viii Contributors Cambridge UK Francescod’Errico UMR-CNRSPACEA UniversitéBordeaux Talence France NathanJ.Emery SchoolofBiologicalandChemicalSciences QueenMaryUniversityofLondon London UK DorothyFragaszy PsychologyDepartment UniversityofGeorgia Athens,GA USA RussellD.Gray DepartmentofPsychology UniversityofAuckland Auckland NewZealand GavinR.Hunt DepartmentofPsychology UniversityofAuckland Auckland NewZealand TetsuroMatsuzawa PrimateResearchInstitute KyotoUniversity Kyoto Japan WilliamC.McGrew DepartmentofArchaeologyandAnthropology UniversityofCambridge Cambridge UK
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