Social Network Analysis Shows Direct Evidence for Social Transmission of Tool Use in Wild Chimpanzees

PLoS Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Hobaiter, Catherine ^a,b   Poisot, Timothée ^c,d   Zuberbühler, Klaus ^a,b,e   Hoppitt, William ^f   Gruber, Thibaud ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b BUDONGO CONSERVATION FIELD STATION   (Uganda)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^d QC Centre for Biodiversity Science   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^f ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL LEARNING; SOCIAL NETWORK; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOOL USE; UGANDA; WILD ANIMAL; ANIMAL; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME;

ANIMALIA; BRYOPHYTA; HOMINIDAE; PAN;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PAN TROGLODYTES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84920385394     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001960     Document Type: Article

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