Tube Test in Free-Ranging Japanese Macaques: Use of Sticks and Stones to Obtain Fruit from a Transparent Pipe

Autor: Ichirou Tanaka, Eishi Tokida, Haruo Takefushi, Toshio Hagiwara
Rok vydání: 2008
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Zdroj: Primate Origins of Human Cognition and Behavior ISBN: 9784431094227
DOI: 10.1007/978-4-431-09423-4_25
Popis: Apes excel in tool using (Yerkes and Yerkes 1929). Captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) learned to use bamboo poles as rakes and, when one was too short, to fit two together to form a longer rake (Kohler 1927). They also climbed up onto boxes to reach a banana hanging from a ceiling, and if one box was too small, would stack one box on another to gain a higher platform. This deployment of previous experience in other contexts such as using poles as rakes and boxes as a ladder is known as perceptual reorganization or insight (Kohler 1927; Manning 1972; Mackintosh 1983).
Databáze: OpenAIRE