A comparison of bonobo and chimpanzee tool use: Evidence for a female bias in the Pan lineage

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1023-1033

  Gruber, Thibaud ^a   Clay, Zanna ^a   Zuberbühler, Klaus ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b Center for Metropolitan Studies   (Germany)

Author keywords

Culture; Great ape; Neoteny; Pan; Primate evolution; Sex difference; Tool use

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CAPTIVE POPULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL MATURITY; TOOL USE;

HOMINIDAE; PAN; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATES;

EID: 78549277134     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.09.005     Document Type: Article

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