Beschrijving

Did you ever think animals built tools? This book offers a long list of examples of instrumental behaviour in animals, analysing concepts like `culture’ and questioning tool-making as an exclusive human ability.

Is instrumental behaviour, or the ability to create and use tools, an achievement of humanity, or just of evolution? Did it appear with our ancestors, or already existed? Is there a non-human culture? This essay delves into these and other questions, trying to explain in a clear way and with multiple examples, concepts and topics that might be difficult to understand for the general public. This book will delve into animal behaviour and return to humans their intrinsic animal nature.