"Recently, two unexpected examples by a wild wolf and a domesticated cow named Veronika attracted global attention and once again opened the door for experts and others to weigh in on the question, "Are these really examples of tooling?" Many people are eager to know more about the nitty-gritty details of tooling, so I am thrilled that Dr. Benjamin Beck, an expert in this area, could answer a few questions about this fascinating behavior."
"Benjamin Beck: Tool use has been scientifically hot since at least 1844, when Thomas Savage, a missionary, saw wild chimpanzees in Gabon pounding open palm nuts with stones "precisely in the manner of human beings." Wolfgang Köhler documented a wide variety of spontaneous tool use by formerly wild chimpanzees in the 1920s. Tool use then became a hot topic for academics, but received little attention in newspapers and popular magazines."
Tool use by diverse animals has drawn sustained scientific and public interest. Recent reports of a wild wolf and a domesticated cow named Veronika prompted renewed debate about whether those behaviors qualify as tooling. Evidence shows many animal species use tools, sometimes in unexpected ways. Historical observations include wild chimpanzees pounding palm nuts with stones in 1844 and documentation of spontaneous chimpanzee tool use in the 1920s. Complex tool behaviors in wild chimpanzees in the 1960s shifted scientific paradigms and captured public imagination. Popular media and social media now amplify and hype new scientific reports of animal tool use.
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