Animal Tool Behavior: The Use and Manufacture of Tools by Animals, Benjamin B. Beck. Garland STPM Press, New York and London (1980), 306, Price £24.50

By E. Menzel. 1981

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Emergent Tool Use From Multi-Agent Autocurricula (2019, background): “[53] Robert W Shumaker, Kristina R Walkup, and Benjamin B Beck.”
Working‐Memory Capacity and the Evolution of Modern Cognitive Potential (2010, methodology): “While the Californian population uses the tools regularly, in the Aleutian population, only the subadults use stones to open the small mussels of the region, and the old individuals use them to pound sea urchins (Beck 1980:41–43; Hall and Schaller 1964).”
Ecology of culture: do environmental factors influence foraging tool use in wild chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes verus? (2013, background): “Across the animal kingdom, tool use is relatively rare (Schumaker et al. 2011) and habitual tool use in the wild is restricted to only a small number of bird species (e.”
Testing Problem Solving in Ravens: String-Pulling to Reach Food (2005, methodology): “The use and manufacture of tools require the ability to perform a sequence of actions in order to bring about an effect (Beck 1980) and thus raises the possibility of understanding causal relationships between objects (e.g. Köhler 1925; Piaget 1954; Thorpe 1956; Griffin 1984; Povinelli 2000).”
Revisiting the definition of animal tool use (2008, methodology): “A chimpanzee stacks two boxes to retrieve a piece of fruit (Beck 1980).”