Tool-use for drinking water by immature chimpanzees of Mahale: Prevalence of an unessential behavior

Primates

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 113-122

  Matsusaka, Takahisa ^a   Nishie, Hitonaru ^a   Shimada, Masaki ^a   Kutsukake, Nobuyuki ^b   Zamma, Koichiro ^a   Nakamura, Michio ^a   Nishida, Toshisada ^c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c JAPAN MONKEY CENTRE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii); Culture; Mahale; Tool sets; Tool use to drink water

Indexed keywords

DRINKING; LEARNING; PRIMATE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TOOL USE;

AGING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TANZANIA;

AGING; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; PAN TROGLODYTES; SEASONS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TANZANIA;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; KIGOMA [TANZANIA]; MAHALE MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TANZANIA;

PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PAN TROGLODYTES SCHWEINFURTHII;

EID: 33645375408     PISSN: 00328332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10329-005-0158-4     Document Type: Article

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