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Animal Tool-Use

机译:动物工具的使用

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The sight of an animal making and using a tool captivates scientists and laymen alike, perhaps because it forces us to question some of our ideas about human uniqueness. Does the animal know how the tool works? Did it anticipate the need for the tool and make it in advance? To some, this fascination with tools seems arbitrary and anthropocentric; after all, animals engage in many other complex activities, like nest building, and we know that complex behaviour need not be cognitively demanding. But tool-using behaviour can also provide a powerful window into the minds of living animals, and help us to learn what capacities we share with them and what might have changed to allow for the incontrovertibly unique levels of technology shown by modern humans.
机译:看到动物制作和使用工具的现象吸引了科学家和非专业人士,这也许是因为它迫使我们质疑关于人类独特性的某些观点。动物是否知道该工具的工作原理?它是否预见了该工具的需求并提前做出了准备?在某些人看来,这种对工具的迷恋似乎是武断且以人为本的。毕竟,动物参与了许多其他复杂的活动,例如筑巢,而且我们知道复杂的行为不需要认知上的要求。但是,使用工具的行为也可以提供进入活体动物思想的强大窗口,并帮助我们了解与动物共享的能力以及可能发生的变化,以允许现代人类展现出无可争议的独特技术水平。

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