Design complexity in termite-fishing tools of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

Biology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 293-296

  Sanz, Crickette ^a   Call, Josep ^a   Morgan, David ^b,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b LINCOLN PARK ZOO   (United States)

^c WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (Congo)

Author keywords

Cognitive template; Tool modification; Tool use

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MORPHOLOGY; PRIMATE; SPECIALIZATION; TERMITE; TOOL USE;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CONGO; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; FISHING; HERB; ISOPTERA; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PLANT STEM; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AFRICA; CENTRAL AFRICA; CONGO; GOUALOUGO TRIANGLE; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

CORVIDAE; CORVUS MONEDULOIDES; HEXAPODA; ISOPTERA; PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 67649130528     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0786     Document Type: Article

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