Savanna chimpanzees use tools to harvest the underground storage organs of plants

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 104, Issue 49, 2007, Pages 19210-19213

  Hernandez Aguilar, R Adriana ^a   Moore, Jim ^b   Pickering, Travis Rayne ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Fallback foods; Plio Pleistocene hominins; USO foraging

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; FOOD STORAGE; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAVANNA; STORAGE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; NATURAL DISASTERS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PLANT ROOTS; TANZANIA;

AUSTRALOPITHECUS; PAN;

EID: 37649010400     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0707929104     Document Type: Article

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