Tool-use and tool-making by captive, group-living orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus abelii) at an artificial termite mound

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 87-93

  Nakamichi, Masayuki ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Orangutan; Pongo pygmaeus abelii; Tool learning; Tool making; Tool modification; Tool use

Indexed keywords

CAPTIVE POPULATION; GROUP BEHAVIOR; PRIMATE; TOOL USE;

AGE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PROCESSING; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORANG UTAN; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKILL; TECHNIQUE;

ISOPTERA; PONGO; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PONGO PYGMAEUS ABELII;

EID: 1642575229     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2003.07.002     Document Type: Article

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