Brief communication: Reaction to fire by savanna chimpanzees (pan troglodytes verus) at fongoli, senegal: Conceptualization of "fire behavior" and the case for a chimpanzee model

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 141, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 646-650

  Pruetz, Jill D ^a   LaDuke, Thomas C ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EAST STROUDSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apes; Control of fire; Hominid

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FIRE; HOMINID; MALE; NONHUMAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYLOGENY; VOCALIZATION; ANIMAL; SENEGAL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

HOMINIDAE; PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PAN TROGLODYTES VERUS; PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FIRES; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PAN TROGLODYTES; SENEGAL;

EID: 77950857096     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21245     Document Type: Article

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