Animal Innovation
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 25 September 2003
- ISBN 9780198526223
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages354 pages
- Size 240x168x19 mm
- Weight 606 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous figures and halftones 0
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Short description:
Many animals will invent new behaviour patterns, adjust established behaviours to a novel context, or respond to stresses in an appropriate and novel manner. This is the first ever book on the topic of 'animal innovation'. Bringing together leading scientific authorities on animal and human innovation, this book will put the topic of animal innovation on the map, and heighten awareness of this developing field.
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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.
This interesting collection of chapters seems bound to stimulate further research, and it may well cause researchers to be more alert to the potential importance of phenomena that might previously have been dismissed as one-off events or anecdotes. It is also a thought-provoking and pleasant read . . . Acquire Animal Innovation, and you'll probably get some new and useful ideas for your teaching and research.
Table of Contents:
Part I - Definitions and Key Questions
Animal innovation: an introduction
Part II - Comparative and Evolutionary Analyses of Innovation
Positive and negative correlates of feeding innovations in birds: evidence for limited modularity
Behavioural innovation: a neglected issue in the ecological and evolutionary literature?
Environmental variability and primate behavioural flexibility
Is innovation in bird song adaptive?
Social Learning: promoter or inhibitor of innovation?
Part III - Patterns and Causes of Animal Innovation
Experimental studies of innovation in the guppy
The role of neophobia and neophilia in the development of innovative behaviour of birds
Characteristics and propensities of marmosets and tamarins: Implications for studies of innovation
Part IV - Innovation, Intelligence, and Cognition
Conditions of innovative behaviour in primates
Novelty in deceit
Innovation as a behavioural response to environmental challenges: a cost and benefit approach
Innovation and creativity in forest-living rehabilitant orangutans
Part V - Human Innovation
Human innovation: two Darwinian analyses
Part VI - Discussion
To innovate or not to innovate? That is the question
