The formation of the brush-sticks: Modification of chimpanzees or the by-product of folding?

Primates

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 183-189

  Takemoto, Hiroyuki ^a   Hirata, Satoshi ^b   Sugiyama, Yukimaru ^c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HAYASHIBARA BIOCHEMICAL LABORATORIES INC   (Japan)

^c TOKAI GAKUEN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brush stick; Campo (Cameroon); Chimpanzee; Equatorial Guinea; Modification

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; PRIMATE; TOOL USE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EQUATORIAL GUINEA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HISTOLOGY; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT STEM; TREE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EQUATORIAL GUINEA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PAN TROGLODYTES; PLANT STEMS; TREES;

AFRICA; CENTRAL AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EQUATORIAL GUINEA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WORLD;

ISOPTERA; PAN (APE); PAN TROGLODYTES; PAN TROGLODYTES TROGLODYTES;

EID: 24144440714     PISSN: 00328332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10329-005-0127-y     Document Type: Article

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