Use of leaves to inspect ectoparasites in wild chimpanzees: A third cultural variant?

Primates

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 255-258

  Assersohn, Clea ^a   Whiten, Andrew ^a   Kiwede, Zephyr T ^b   Tinka, John ^b   Karamagi, Joseph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b Budongo Forest Project   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Chimpanzee; Culture; Custom; Ectoparasite; Grooming

Indexed keywords

ECTOPARASITE; GROOMING; PRIMATE; TOOL USE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL DISEASE; APE DISEASE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GROOMING; INFESTATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PROTOZOON; UGANDA; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; APE DISEASES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; FEMALE; GROOMING; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PLANT LEAVES; PROTOZOA; UGANDA;

AFRICA; BUDONGO FOREST; EAST AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; UGANDA; WESTERN PROVINCE [UGANDA]; WORLD;

PAN (APE); PAN TROGLODYTES; PAN TROGLODYTES SCHWEINFURTHII; TROGLODYTES;

EID: 7544250405     PISSN: 00328332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10329-004-0092-x     Document Type: Article

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