Sentence examples for for tool use from inspiring English sources

This hinted that the species was beginning to use its hands more like us, perhaps for tool use.

Their short fingers, for example, "would allow the kind of fine-scale manipulation necessary for tool use," he said.

Presumably, this is helpful for tool use, since straight beaks make it easier to manipulate twigs than the more common curved ones.

Other important factors influencing surface wear are the durability and texture of the rock type selected for tool use.

In Ethiopia two animal bones purportedly bearing cut and percussion marks provided the oldest-known evidence for tool use among human ancestors, pushing that date back by 800,000 years.

In orangutans — as in chimpanzees, dolphins, and a few other species — a penchant for tool use and problem-solving has brought about cultural learning, in which animals teach one another new behaviors, transmitting the information among members of a group, sometimes from one generation to the next.

Motorola, Agilent and Affymetrix are all chasing the market for tools used in genetic research.

Researchers led by Anthony Ranere of Temple University and Dolores Piperno of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History excavated caves and rock shelters in the region, searching for tools used by their inhabitants, maize starch grains and other microscopic evidence of maize.

But the propensity for tool-use behaviors, such as those demonstrated by the New Caledonian crow, Corvus moneduloides, the Hawaiian crow, Corvus hawaiiensis, and the Galápagos woodpecker finch, Camarhynchus pallidus, may be another peculiarity of island life for birds.

This evidence implies a high level of curiosity in this species, which makes it suitable for cooperative experimenter subject relations, as well as the behavioral flexibility required for tool-use training.

Similar cognitive steps are required for tool-use behavior.