 Tool Use Behavior
"Tool Use Behavior" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Modifying, carrying, or manipulating an item external to itself by an animal, before using it to effect a change on the environment or itself (from Beck, Animal Tool Behavior, 1980).
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D053001
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F01.145.113.840
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| Concept/Terms |
Tool Use Behavior- Tool Use Behavior
- Behavior, Tool Use
- Behaviors, Tool Use
- Tool Use Behaviors
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| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2025 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Tool Use Behavior" by people in Profiles.
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Mongle CS, Orr CM, Tocheri MW, Prang TC, Grine FE, Feibel C, Patel BA, Laureijs O, Hobbs TE, Maiolino S, Rossie J, Mbogo W, Du Plessis A, Lonyericho J, Woto Huka W, Sale H, Umuro A, Yirgudo P, Dalacha I, Kirinya M, Linga E, Loki R, Longaye A, Longaye M, Lonyericho E, Loyapan I, Nakudo N, Nyete C, Leakey MG, Leakey LN. New fossils reveal the hand of Paranthropus boisei. Nature. 2025 Nov; 647(8091):944-951.
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Amon MJ, Favela LH. Distributed cognition criteria: Defined, operationalized, and applied to human-dog systems. Behav Processes. 2019 May; 162:167-176.
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Wynn T, Coolidge FL. Archeological insights into hominin cognitive evolution. Evol Anthropol. 2016 Jul; 25(4):200-13.
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Wynn T, Hernandez-Aguilar RA, Marchant LF, McGrew WC. "An ape's view of the Oldowan" revisited. Evol Anthropol. 2011 Sep-Oct; 20(5):181-97.
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