Diversity of items of low nutritional value ingested by chimpanzees from Kanyawara, kibale national park, Uganda: An example of the etho-ethnology of chimpanzees

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Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 227-263

  Krief, Sabrina ^a   Wrangham, Richard W ^b,c,d,e   Lestel, Dominique ^a,f  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Kibale Chimpanzee Project ^*

^d Kibale Chimpanzee Project   (Uganda)

^e Peabody Essex Museum   (United States)

^f ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

Chimpanzee culture; Epistemology; Etho ethnology; Pan troglodytes; Self medication; Uganda

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646412031     PISSN: 05390184     EISSN: 14617412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0539018406063642     Document Type: Article

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