Brief communication: Why sleep in a nest? empirical testing of the function of simple shelters made by wild chimpanzees

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 313-318

  Stewart, F A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bed; evolution of shelter; savanna chimpanzees; sleep

Indexed keywords

ALERTNESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARBOREAL SPECIES; ARTICLE; BITE; CHIMPANZEE; DISEASE CARRIER; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; MOSQUITO; NESTING; NIGHT SLEEP; NOISE POLLUTION; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; SENEGAL; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP QUALITY; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; THERMOREGULATION; WAKEFULNESS;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; HUMANS; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PAN TROGLODYTES; RESEARCH DESIGN; SENEGAL; SLEEP; TREES; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 80052716944     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21580     Document Type: Article

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