Taï chimpanzees use botanical skills to discover fruit: What we can learn from their mistakes

Animal Cognition

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 851-860

  Janmaat, Karline R L ^a   Ban, Simone D ^a,b   Boesch, Christophe ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ FÉLIX HOUPHOUËT BOIGNY   (Côte d’Ivoire)

Author keywords

Categorization; Foraging strategies; Frugivores; Fruiting synchrony; Pan troglodytes

Indexed keywords

PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PAN TROGLODYTES VERUS; PRIMATES;

ANIMAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FRUIT; PAN TROGLODYTES; PSYCHOLOGY; TERRITORIALITY; TREE;

ANIMALS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FRUIT; PAN TROGLODYTES; TERRITORIALITY; TREES;

EID: 84885848226     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-013-0617-z     Document Type: Article

References (68)

1. Anderson DP, Nordheim EV, Moermond TC (2002) Factors influencing fission-fusion grouping in chimpanzees in the Tai National Park, Cote d'Ivoire. In: Boesch B, Hohmann G, Marchant LF (eds) Behavioural diversity in chimpanzees and bonobos. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp 90-101.
2. Anderson DP, Nordheim EV, Moermond TC, Goné Bi ZB, Boesch C (2005) Factors influencing tree phenology in Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire. Biotropica 37: 631-640.
3. Avarguès-Weber A, Deisig N, Giurfa M (2011) Visual cognition in social insects. Annu Rev Entomol 56: 423-443.
4. Baayen RH (2008) Analyzing linguistic data. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
5. Bates D, Maechler M, Bolker B (2011) lme4: linear mixed-effects models using S4 classes. R package version 0. 999375-42. http://CRAN. R-project. org/package=lme4.
6. Bicca-Marques JC, Garber PA (2004) Use of spatial, visual, and olfactory information during foraging in wild nocturnal and diurnal anthropoids: a field experiment comparing Aotus, Callicebus, and Saguinus. Am J Primatol 62: 171-187.
7. Bjørnstad ON, Ims RA, Lambin X (1999) Spatial population dynamics: analyzing patterns and processes of population synchrony. Trends Ecol Evol 14: 427-432.
8. Boesch C, Goné Bi Z, Anderson D, Stahl D (2006) Food choice in Taï chimpanzees: are cultural differences present? In: Hohmann G, Robbins M, Boesch C (eds) Feeding ecology in apes and other primates. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp 365-399.
9. Boesch C, Crockford C, Herbinger I, Wittig R, Moebius Y, Normand E (2008) Intergroup conflicts among chimpanzees in Taï National Park: lethal violence and the female perspective. Am J Primatol 70: 519-532.
10. Bolker BM, Brooks ME, Clark CJ, Geange SW, Poulsen JR, Stevens MHH, White JSS (2008) Generalized linear mixed models: a practical guide for ecology. Am J Physic Anthropol 135: 171-181.
11. Boysen ST, Hallberg KI (2000) Primate numerical competence: contributions toward understanding nonhuman cognition. Cognitive Sci 24: 423-443.
12. Brauer J, Call J (2011) The magic cup: great apes and domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) individuate objects according to properties. J Comp Psychol 125: 353-361.
13. Buonaccorsi JP, Elkinton JS, Evans SR, Liebhold AM (2001) Measuring and testing for spatial synchrony. Ecology 82: 1668-1679.
14. Byrne RW (1995) The thinking ape. Evolutionary origins of intelligence. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
15. Chapman CA, Chapman LJ, Wrangham RW, Hunt K, Gebo D, Gardner L (1992) Estimators of fruit abundance of tropical trees. Biotropica 24: 527-531.
16. Chapman CA, Wrangham RW, Chapman LJ, Kennard DK, Zanne AE (1999) Fruit and flower phenology at two sites in Kibale National Park, Uganda. J Trop Ecol 15: 189-211.
17. Chapman CA, Chapman LJ, Struhsaker TT, Zanne AE, Clark CJ, Poulsen JR (2005) A long-term evaluation of fruiting phenology: importance of climate change. J Trop Ecol 21: 31-45.
18. Chittka L, Jensen K (2012) Animal cognition: concepts from apes to bees. Curr Biol 21: 116-119.
19. Chittka L, Niven J (2009) Are bigger brains better? Curr Biol 19: 995-1008.
20. Chittka L, Thomson JD (1997) Sensori-motor learning and its relevance for task specialization in bumble bees. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 41: 385-398.
21. Chittka L, Gumbert A, Kunze J (1997) Foraging dynamics of bumble bees: correlates of movements within and between plant species. Behav Ecol 8: 239-249.
22. Crawley MJ (2007) The R book. Wiley, Chichester.
23. Darwin C (1876) The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom. Murray, London.
24. Depy D, Fagot J, Vauclair J (1999) Processing of above/below categorical spatial relations by baboons (Papio papio). Behav Process 48: 1-9.
25. Diaz-Perez JC, Bautista S, Villanueva R (2000) Quality changes in sapote mamey fruit during ripening and storage. Postharv Biol Technol 18: 67-73.
26. Dominy NJ, Lucas PW, Osoria D, Yamashita N (2001) The sensory ecology of primate food perception. Evol Anthropol 10: 171-186.
27. Edwards GR, Newman JA, Parson AJ, Krebs JR (1997) Use of cues by grazing animals to locate food patches: and example with sheep. Appl Anim Behav Sci 51: 59-68.
28. Forstmeier W, Schielzeth H (2011) Cryptic multiple hypotheses testing in linear models: overestimated effect sizes and the winner's curse. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 65: 47-55.
29. Fox J, Weisberg S (2011) An R companion to applied regression, 2nd edn. Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA. URL: http://socserv. socsci. mcmaster. ca/jfox/Books/Companion.
30. Giurfa M, Zhang S, Jenett A, Menzel R, Srinivasan MV (2001) The concepts of 'sameness' and 'difference' in an insect. Nature 410: 930-933.
31. Glanz WE, Thorington R, Giacalone-Madden J, Heaney LR (1982) Seasonal food use and demographic trends in Sciurus granatensis. In: Leigh EG, Rand AS, Windsor DM (eds) Ecology of a tropical forest. Smithsonian Press, Washington, DC, pp 239-252.
32. Goné Bi ZB (1999) Phénologie et distribution des plantes dont divers organes (principalement les fruits) sont consommés par les chimpanzés, dans le Parc national de Taï, Côte d'Ivoire. Mémoire DEA, University of Cocody, Abijdan, Côte d'Ivoire.
33. Goné Bi ZB (2007) Régime alimentaire des chimpanzés, distribution spatiale et phénologie des plantes dont les fruits sont consommés par les chimpanzés du Parc National de Taï, en Côte d'Ivoire. Dissertation, University of Cocody, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.
34. Haccou P, Meelis E (1994) Statistical analyses of behavioural data. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
35. Holland RA, Winter P, Waters DA (2005) Sensory systems and spatial memory in the fruit bat Rousettus aegyptiacus. Ethology 111: 715-725.
36. Houle A, Vickery WL, Chapman CA (2006) Mechanisms of coexistence among two species of frugivorous primates. J Anim Ecol 75: 1034-1044.
37. Inoue T, Hasegawa T, Takara S, Lukáts B, Mizuno M, Aou S (2008) Categorization of biologically significant objects, food and gender, in rhesus monkeys I. Behavioral study. Neurosci Res 61: 70-78.
38. Janmaat KRL, Chapman CA, Meijer R, Züberbuehler K (2012) The use of fruiting synchrony by foraging mangabey monkeys: a 'simple tool' to find fruit. Anim Cogn 15: 83-96.
39. Janson C, Byrne RW (2007) Resource cognition in wild primates-opening up the black box. Anim Cogn 10: 357-367.
40. Koenig WD, Kelly D, Sork VL, Duncan RP, Elkinton JS, Peltonen MS, Westfall RD (2003) Dissecting components of population-level variation in seed production and the evolution of masting behavior. Oikos 102: 581-591.
41. Kouakou CY, Boesch C, Kuehl H (2011) Identifying hotspots of chimpanzee group activity from transect surveys in Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire. J Tropic Ecol 27: 621-630.
42. Manning A (1956) Some aspects of the foraging behaviour of bumble-bees. Behaviour 9: 164-201.
43. Marriott J, Robinson M, Karikari SK (1981) Starch and sugar transformation during the ripening of plantains and bananas. J Sci Food Agric 32: 1021-1026.
44. Martin P, Bateson P (2007) Measuring behavior. An introductory guide. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
45. Menzel CR (1991) Cognitive aspects of foraging in Japanese monkeys. Anim Behav 41: 397-402.
46. Milton K (1980) The foraging strategy of howler monkeys. A study of primate economics. Columbia University Press, New York, p 138.
47. Milton K (1981) Distribution pattern of tropical plant foods as an evolutionary stimulus to primate mental development. Am Anthropol 83: 534-548.
48. Milton K, Giacalone S, Wright SJ, Stockmayer G (2005) Do frugivore population fluctuations reflect fruit production? Evidence from Panama. In: Dew JL, Boubli JP (eds) Tropical fruits and frugivores. The search for strong interactors. Springer, The Netherlands, pp 5-35.
49. N'Goran PK, Boesch C, Mundry R, N'Goran EK, Herbinger I, Yapi FA, Kühl HS (2012) Hunting, law enforcement and African primate conservation. Conserv Biol 26: 565-571.
50. Normand E, Ban DS, Boesch C (2009) Forest chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) remember the location of numerous fruit trees. Anim Cogn 12: 797-807.
51. Olupot W, Waser PN, Chapman CA (1998) Fruit finding by mangabeys (Lophocebus albigena): are monitoring of fig trees and use of sympatric frugivore calls possible strategies? Int J Primatol 19: 339-353.
52. Plateau F (1901) Observations sur le phénomène de la constance chez quelques hyménoptères. Ann Soc Entomol Belg 45: 56-83.
53. Polansky L, Boesch C (in press) Long-term fruit phenology and rainfall trends conflict in a West African lowland tropical rainforest. J Tropic Ecol. Supplementary materials.
54. Santos LR, Hauser MD, Spelke ES (2001) Recognition and categorization of biologically significant objects by rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta): the domain of food. Cognition 82: 127-155.
55. Shettleworth SJ (2010) Cognition, evolution, and behaviour. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
56. Spinozzi G, Lubrano G, Truppa V (2004) Categorization of above and below spatial relations by tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella). J Comp Psychol 118: 403-412.
57. Struhsaker TT (1997) Ecology of an African rainforest. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
58. Thompson ME, Wrangham RW (2008) Diet and Reproductive Function in Wild Female Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) at Kibale National Park, Uganda and evolution. Trends Ecol Evol 24: 127-135.
59. Thompson RKR, Oden DL, Boysen ST (1997) Language-naïve chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) judge relations between relations in a conceptual matching to sample task. J Exp Psychol Anim Behav 23: 31-43.
60. Tinklepauh OL (1928) An experimental study of representative factors in monkeys. Comp Psychol 8: 197-236.
61. van Schaik CP, Terborgh JW, Wright SJ (1993) The phenology of tropical forests: adaptive significance and consequences for primary consumers. Ann Rev Ecol Syst 24: 353-377.
62. Vlaming PHJM, Uher J, Call J (2006) How the great apes (Pan troglodytes, Pongo pygmaeus, Pan paniscus, and Gorilla gorilla) perform on the reversed contingency task: the effects of food quantity and food visibility. J Exp Psychol Anim Behav 32: 60-70.
63. Vogels R (1999) Categorization of complex visual images by rhesus monkeys. Part 1: behavioural study. Eur J Neurosci 11: 1223-1238.
64. Vooren AP (1999) Introduction de la bionomie dans la gestion des forêts tropicales denses humides. Dissertation. Wageningen University, The Netherlands.
65. Waser NM (1986) Flower constancy: definition, cause and measurement. Am Nat 127: 593-603.
66. Nishida T, Zamma, K, Matsusaka T, Inaba A, McGrew WC (2010) Chimpanzee behavior in the wild: an audio-visual encyclopedia. Springer, Tokyo.
67. Zentall TR, Wasserman EA, Lazereva OF, Thompson RKR, Rattermann MJ (2008) Concept learning in animals. Comp Cogn Behav Rev 3: 13-45.
68. Zuberbühler K, Janmaat KRL (2010) Foraging cognition in nonhuman primates. In: Platt ML, Ghazanfar AA (eds) Primate neuroethology. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp 64-83.