Food washing and placer mining in captive great apes

Primates

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 361-370

  Allritz, Matthias ^a   Tennie, Claudio ^a   Call, Josep ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Food washing; Great apes; Placer mining; Tradition

Indexed keywords

AUTECOLOGY; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; FOOD CONSUMPTION; FOOD INTAKE; PRIMATE; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HOMINID; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ZOO ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HOMINIDAE; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84884927525     PISSN: 00328332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10329-013-0355-5     Document Type: Article

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