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