A potent effect of observational learning on chimpanzee tool construction

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1671, 2009, Pages 3377-3383

  Price, Elizabeth E ^a   Lambeth, Susan P ^b   Schapiro, Steve J ^b   Whiten, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chimpanzees; Social learning; Tool manufacture; Tool use; Video demonstration

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL COMMUNITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPLEXITY; CONSPECIFIC; COST; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; HOMINID; HUMAN EVOLUTION; LEARNING; PERSISTENCE; RANGE SIZE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TOOL USE; VIDEOGRAPHY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; COGNITION; COMPOSITE MATERIAL; FEMALE; LEARNING TEST; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOOL USE;

ANIMALIA; PAN;

EID: 70349420929     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0640     Document Type: Article

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