Cultural innovation and transmission of tool use in wild chimpanzees: Evidence from field experiments

Animal Cognition

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 213-223

  Biro, Dora ^a,c   Inoue Nakamura, Noriko ^a   Tonooka, Rikako ^a   Yamakoshi, Gen ^a   Sousa, Claudia ^b   Matsuzawa, Tetsuro ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus); Culture; Social transmission; Tool use

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IMITATION; KITCHEN; MALE; MASS COMMUNICATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALS; COOKING AND EATING UTENSILS; CULTURE; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; PAN TROGLODYTES; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALIA; ELAEIS; ELAEIS GUINEENSIS; PAN (APE); PAN TROGLODYTES; PAN TROGLODYTES VERUS; TROGLODYTES;

EID: 1442353009     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-003-0183-x     Document Type: Article

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