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 …

Each local population of chimpanzees shows cultural variation, but little is known about how
behavioral variations first emerge, and how often variants spread to other individuals and …

Despite numerous attempts to define animal tool use over the past four decades, the
definition remains elusive and the behaviour classification somewhat subjective. Here, we …

The Primate Origins of Human Nature (Volume 3 in The Foundations of Human Biology
series) blends several elements from evolutionary biology as applied to primate behavioral …

Chimpanzees are humanity's closest living relations and are of enduring interest to a range
of sciences, from anthropology to zoology. In the West, many know of the pioneering work of …

The chimpanzees of Bossou in Guinea, West Africa, form a unique community which
displays an exceptional array of tool use behaviors and behavioral adaptations to …

Aquatic resources are used extensively by many human populations but their role in the
ecology of other primate species has been understudied. At least 10% of extant primates …

Primates are sometimes categorized in terms of their habitat. Although such categorization
can be oversimplistic, there are scientific benefits from the clarity and consistency that …

Objects are naturally occurring items or artificially made artifacts that subjects–humans and
animals–act with. They serve as tools in the widest sense: they are used to do something. As …

Crickette M. Sanz and David B. Morgan plex than other types of object use. However, some
types of tool use are species-specific feeding adaptations that do not require any …