Animal innovation

In 1953 a young female Japanese monkey called Imo began washing sweet potatoes in water prior to eating, presumably to remove dirt and sand grains. Soon other monkeys had copied her behavior, and potato-washing gradually spread throughout the entire troop. When, three years after her first invention...

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Sonraí Bibleagrafaíochta
Príomhúdar: Reader, Simon M.
Údair Eile: Simon M. Reader; Kevin N. Laland
Teanga:Undetermined
English
Foilsithe: Oxford,New York Oxford University Press 2003
Ábhair:
Clibeanna: Cuir Clib Leis
Gan Chlibeanna, Bí ar an gcéad duine leis an taifead seo a chlibeáil!
Thư viện lưu trữ: Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh
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Achoimre:In 1953 a young female Japanese monkey called Imo began washing sweet potatoes in water prior to eating, presumably to remove dirt and sand grains. Soon other monkeys had copied her behavior, and potato-washing gradually spread throughout the entire troop. When, three years after her first invention, Imo devised a second novel foraging behavior, 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 behavior patterns, adjust established behaviors to a novel context, or respond in an appropriate and novel manner...
Cur Síos Fisiciúil:x, 344 p.
ill.
25 cm
Bibleagrafaíocht:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:0198526210
9780198526216