Affiliation promotes the transmission of a social custom: Handclasp grooming among captive chimpanzees

Primates

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 27-34

  Bonnie, Kristin E ^a   de Waal, Frans B M ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chimpanzees; Culture; Handclasp grooming; Social learning

Indexed keywords

AFFILIATIVE BEHAVIOR; CULTURE; GROOMING; LEARNING; PRIMATE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; GROOMING; OBSERVATION; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ZOO ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; GROOMING; OBSERVATION; PAN TROGLODYTES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 31144452556     PISSN: 00328332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10329-005-0141-0     Document Type: Article

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