Wild Chimpanzees Rely on Cultural Knowledge to Solve an Experimental Honey Acquisition Task

Current Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 1806-1810

  Gruber, Thibaud ^a,b   Muller, Martin N ^c,d   Strimling, Pontus ^a   Wrangham, Richard ^d,e   Zuberbühler, Klaus ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b BUDONGO CONSERVATION FIELD STATION   (Uganda)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^d Kibale Chimpanzee Project   (Uganda)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HONEY; IMITATION; LEARNING; PAN TROGLODYTES; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TOOL USE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HONEY; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; PAN TROGLODYTES; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; PAN;

EID: 71849086431     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.08.060     Document Type: Article

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