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In contrast, she could never have reported her findings by leaving out the concept of tool-use!

Bunny and a Book 2008

I think this is deeply true in geek culture, where traditional displays of violence and sexuality have been thwarted and sublimated into advanced tool-use and language skills.

Monkeys, Man, Monkeys yuki_onna 2009

The reference property might refer to some general capacity (e.g. problem solving), some specific ability (e.g. language, theory of mind, tool-use), or it might consist of some set of properties.

Animal Cognition Andrews, Kristin 2008

The reason humans have covered the face of the earth has nothing at all to do with opposable thumbs (chimps have those on their feet, doggone it!), and nothing to do with speech, tool-use, or better brains (I don't know about you, but you can't prove I'm any smarter than the cat -- I think he has it all rigged).

Scientists Prove Humans Aren't So Smart! 2006

PC vendors aim at businesses, who aren't creative in their tool-use.

Boing Boing: April 20, 2003 - April 26, 2003 Archives 2003

Permanence is Karl's second novel, and it's brilliant -- at its core is a massive, hard-sf conceit: that because tool-use expends more energy than adaptation (i.e., when confronted with a marsh, it's easier to be a marsh-bird than to figure out how to drain it), that over time, all the races of the universe will use genetic engineering to adapt themselves to their habitats and so become nonsentient.

Boing Boing: August 24, 2003 - August 30, 2003 Archives 2003

"If indeed these examples can be considered cases of tool-use, they may represent the first documented evidence of such behaviour in a canid, particularly as this behaviour occurred spontaneously," says the paper, authored by Bradley Smith, Robert Appleby and Carla Litchfield.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Jonathan Pearlman 2011

The ranks of animals that have shown tool-use behavior have grown recently to include octopuses, crows, parrots, and insects, along with primates and dolphins.

Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

Technology is not neutral in this (axiological) sense, as the common "tool-use" model suggests.

Ethical Technology IEET 2010

Gray and white matter changes associated with tool-use learning in macaque monkeys

Medgadget 2010