Product Description: Chimpanzees dont monkey around when it comes to using tools. Readers will delight in this book about animals that use tools and weapons to keep them safe and make life easier. These highly intelligent animals include crows, dolphins, gorillas, and of course, the smart chimpanzee...read more

Simple, rhyming text introduces eleven animals and the surprising tools they use, including an octopus that hides in a coconut, a dolphin that protects its nose with a sponge, and a deer that bedecks its antlers with heaping piles of mud and grass. Secondary text offers further information about these crafty creatures.

Product Description: This brand new title in the Think About series explores and explains that while some animals do indeed use tools, only people have developed implements that make it possible to do things that their bodies cannot. A funny, kid-like question - "Does a woodpecker use a hammer?" - is paired with a silly scenario (a woodpecker in a tool belt), and a few facts about how some animals use parts of their bodies as tools...read more

The California sea otter is one of the animals examined in this inquiry into tool use by animals, an aspect of animal behavior once thought to be exclusively human