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TOOL-USING, the ability to manipulate an object as a functional extension of the body, has been described in a number of vertebrate and invertebrate species1. Although earlier workers regarded it as an indication of insight learning, its significance as a behavioural adaptation2,3, possibly arising through the novel use of a pre-existing behaviour pattern4, has been stressed in recent studies.
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WELDON, P., HOFFMAN, D. Unique form of tool-using in two gastropod molluscs (Trochidae). Nature 256, 720–721 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/256720a0
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