Commentary: Dog Stick Chewing: An Overlooked Instance of Tool Use?

Frontiers in Psychology

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Ivaylo Borislavov Iotchev¹ 

[1] Department of Ethology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University

关键词: tool use;    dog cognition;    cognitive evolution;    comparative cognition;    methods of behavioral research;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2021.692495

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Brooks and Yamamoto (2021) attempt to shed new light on old facts, when they propose that dogs’notorious chewing of sticks could be an overlooked instance of tool use. The arguments rely onan integrated analysis across many currently acknowledged definitions (Van Lawick-Goodall, 1971;Beck, 1980; Matsuzawa, 2008; Shumaker et al., 2011; Call, 2013) and propositions of how alternativeaccounts, such as the acts of playing or fidgeting relate to the proposed hypothesis. Brooks andYamamoto synthetize and adopt a continuum-type hypothesis to support their final conclusion.This approach to theorizing acknowledges that higher cognitive functions might be absent inbehaviors ancestral to tool use, but opens the door for other problems, to be elaborated below.

【 授权许可】

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