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Animal Innovation (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,959
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Animal Innovation (Paperback): Simon M. Reader, Kevin N. Laland

Animal Innovation (Paperback)

Simon M. Reader, Kevin N. Laland

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In 1953 a young female Japanese macaque called Imo began washing sweet potatoes before eating them, presumably to remove dirt and sand grains. Soon other monkeys had adopted this behaviour, and potato-washing gradually spread throughout the troop. When, three years after her first invention, Imo devised a second novel foraging behaviour, that of separating wheat from sand by throwing mixed handfuls into water and scooping out the floating grains, she was almost instantly heralded around the world as a 'monkey genius'. Imo is probably the most celebrated of animal innovators. In fact, many animals will invent new behaviour patterns, adjust established behaviours to a novel context, or respond to stresses in an appropriate and novel manner.

Innovation is an important component of behavioural flexibility, vital to the survival of individuals in species with generalist or opportunistic lifestyles, and potentially of critical importance to those endangered or threatened species forced to adjust to changed or impoverished environments. Innovation may also have played a central role in avian and primate brain evolution. Yet until recently animal innovation has been subject to almost complete neglect by behavioural biologists, psychologists, social learning researchers, and conservation-minded biologists.

This collection of stimulating and readable articles by leading scientific authorities is the first ever book on 'animal innovation', designed to put the topic of animal innovation on the map and heighten awareness of this developing field.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: September 2003
Editors: Simon M. Reader • Kevin N. Laland
Dimensions: 240 x 168 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-852622-3
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Experimental psychology
Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > Intelligence
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Zoology & animal sciences > Animal behaviour
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Zoology & animal sciences > Vertebrates > Mammals > Primates
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LSN: 0-19-852622-9
Barcode: 9780198526223

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