 Tool Use Behavior
"Tool Use Behavior" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Modifying, carrying, or manipulating an item external to itself by an animal, before using it to effect a change on the environment or itself (from Beck, Animal Tool Behavior, 1980).
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D053001
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F01.145.113.840
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| Concept/Terms |
Tool Use Behavior- Tool Use Behavior
- Behavior, Tool Use
- Behaviors, Tool Use
- Tool Use Behaviors
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| 2010 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Tool Use Behavior" by people in Profiles.
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Musgrave S, Lonsdorf E, Morgan D, Sanz C. The ontogeny of termite gathering among chimpanzees in the Goualougo Triangle, Republic of Congo. Am J Phys Anthropol. 2021 02; 174(2):187-200.
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Musgrave S, Lonsdorf E, Morgan D, Prestipino M, Bernstein-Kurtycz L, Mundry R, Sanz C. Teaching varies with task complexity in wild chimpanzees. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 01 14; 117(2):969-976.
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van Leeuwen EJ, Cronin KA, Haun DB. Tool use for corpse cleaning in chimpanzees. Sci Rep. 2017 03 13; 7:44091.
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Musgrave S, Morgan D, Lonsdorf E, Mundry R, Sanz C. Tool transfers are a form of teaching among chimpanzees. Sci Rep. 2016 10 11; 6:34783.
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Thompson JC, McPherron SP, Bobe R, Reed D, Barr WA, Wynn JG, Marean CW, Geraads D, Alemseged Z. Taphonomy of fossils from the hominin-bearing deposits at Dikika, Ethiopia. J Hum Evol. 2015 Sep; 86:112-35.
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Hopper LM, Tennie C, Ross SR, Lonsdorf EV. Chimpanzees create and modify probe tools functionally: A study with zoo-housed chimpanzees. Am J Primatol. 2015 Feb; 77(2):162-70.
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Margulis SW, Steele GR, Kleinfelder RE. Use of buckets as tools by Western lowland gorillas. Zoo Biol. 2012 Mar-Apr; 31(2):260-6.
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McPherron SP, Alemseged Z, Marean C, Wynn JG, Reed D, Geraads D, Bobe R, Béarat H. Tool-marked bones from before the Oldowan change the paradigm. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 May 24; 108(21):E116; author reply E117.
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Ross SR, Milstein MS, Calcutt SE, Lonsdorf EV. Preliminary assessment of methods used to demonstrate nut-cracking behavior to five captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Folia Primatol (Basel). 2010; 81(4):224-32.
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McPherron SP, Alemseged Z, Marean CW, Wynn JG, Reed D, Geraads D, Bobe R, Béarat HA. Evidence for stone-tool-assisted consumption of animal tissues before 3.39 million years ago at Dikika, Ethiopia. Nature. 2010 Aug 12; 466(7308):857-60.
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