Community-specific evaluation of tool affordances in wild chimpanzees

Scientific Reports

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Gruber, Thibaud ^a,b   Muller, Martin N ^c,f   Reynolds, Vernon ^b,d   Wrangham, Richard ^e,f   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 MAGDALEN COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Kibale Chimpanzee Project   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; LEARNING; PAN TROGLODYTES; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TOOL USE; UGANDA;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; HUMANS; LEARNING; PAN TROGLODYTES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR; UGANDA;

EID: 84859762024     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00128     Document Type: Article

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