Ecology of culture: Do environmental factors influence foraging tool use in wild chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes verus?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 175-185

  Koops, Kathelijne ^a   McGrew, William C ^a   Matsuzawa, Tetsuro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ant dipping; Chimpanzee; Culture; Necessity hypothesis; Nut cracking; Opportunity hypothesis; Pan troglodytes verus; Termite fishing; Tool use

Indexed keywords

ANT; CULTURE; ENCOUNTER RATE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOOD PREFERENCE; FRUIT; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PRIMATE; TERMITE; TOOL USE; WILD POPULATION;

GUINEA; NIMBA RANGE; SERINGBARA;

FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; ISOPTERA; MACROTERMES; NIMBA; PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PAN TROGLODYTES VERUS;

EID: 84872339229     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.10.022     Document Type: Article

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