New tools suggest local variation in tool use by a montane community of the rare Nigeria–Cameroon chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes ellioti, in Nigeria

Primates

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 89-100

  Dutton, Paul ^a   Chapman, Hazel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Afromontane; Camponotus; Dorylus; Pan troglodytes ellioti; Stingless bees; Tool use

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; NIGERIA; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY; TOOL USE;

ANIMALS; NIGERIA; PAN TROGLODYTES; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84922079960     PISSN: 00328332     EISSN: 16107365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10329-014-0451-1     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Abwe EE, Morgan BJ (2008) The Ebo Forest: four years of preliminary research and conservation of the Nigeria–Cameroon chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes vellerosus). Pan Africa News 15:26–29
2. Alp R (1993) Meat eating and ant dipping by wild chimpanzees in Sierra Leone. Primates 34:463–468
3. Boesch C, Boesch H (1990) Tool use and tool making in wild chimpanzees. Folia Primatol 54:86–99
4. Boesch C, Marchesi P, Marchesi N, Frut B, Joulian F (1994) Is nut cracking in wild chimpanzees a cultural behaviour? J Hum Evol 26:325–338
5. Boesch C, Head H, Robbins MM (2009) Complex tool sets for honey extraction among chimpanzees in Loango National Park, Gabon. J Hum Evol 56:560–569
6. Chapman JD, Chapman HM (2001) The forests of Taraba and Adamawa States, Nigeria. An ecological account and plant species checklist. University of Canterbury, Christchurch
7. Chapman HM, Olsen SM, Trumm D (2004) An assessment of changes in the montane forests of Taraba State, Nigeria, over the past 30 years. Oryx 38:282–290
8. Dishan EE, Agishi R, Akosim C (2010) Women’s involvement in non timber forest products utilization in support zones of Gashaka Gumti National park. J Res For Wildl Environ 2:73–84
9. Dutton P (2013) Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes ellioti) ecology in a Nigerian montane forest. Ph.D. thesis. University of Canterbury
10. Dutton P, Chapman H (2014) Dietary preferences of a submontane population of the rare Nigerian-Cameroon chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes ellioti) in Ngel Nyaki Forest Reserve, Nigeria. Am J Primatol. doi:10.1002/ajp.22313
11. Dutton P, Chapman H, Moltchanova E (2014) Secondary removal of seeds dispersed by chimpanzees in a Nigerian montane forest. Afr J Ecol. doi:10.1111/aje.12138
12. Fay JM, Carroll RW (1994) Chimpanzee tool use for honey and termite extraction in central Africa. Am J Primatol 33:309–317
13. Fowler A (2006) Behavioural ecology of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes vellerosus) at Gashaka, Nigeria. Ph.D. thesis. University College London
14. Fowler A, Sommer V (2007) Subsistence technology in Nigerian chimpanzees. Int J Primatol 28:997–1023
15. Hawthorne WD, Jongkind CCH (2006) Woody plants of western African forests, a guide to the forest trees, shrubs and lianas from Senegal to Ghana. Kew Publishing, Kew
16. Hicks TC. 2010 A chimpanzee mega-culture? Exploring behavioral continuity in Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii across northern DR Congo. Dissertation, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
17. Hicks TC, Fouts RS, Fouts DH (2005) Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) tool use in the Ngotto Forest, Central African Republic. Am J Primatol 65:221–237
18. Humle T (2003) Behaviour and ecology of chimpanzees in West Africa. In: Kormos R, Boesch C, Bakarr MI, Butynski TM (eds) Status survey and conservation action plan: West African chimpanzees. IUCN, Gland, pp 13–19
19. Humle T (2010) How are army ants shedding new light on culture in chimpanzees. In: Lonsdorf EV, Ross SR, Matsuzawa T (eds) The mind of the chimpanzee: ecological and experimental perspectives. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, pp 116–126
20. Keay RWJ (1990) Trees of Nigeria. Clarendon Press, New York p 486
21. Knight A (2013) The genetic structure and dispersal patterns of the Nigeria-Cameroon Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes ellioti). MSc thesis. University of Canterbury, New Zealand
22. Koops K, McGrew WC, Matsuzawa T (2010) Do chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) use cleavers and anvils to fracture Treculia africana fruits? Preliminary data on a new form of percussive technology. Primates 51:175–178
23. Matsuzawa T (1994) Field experiments on use of stone tools by chimpanzees in the wild. In: Wrangham RW, McGrew WC, de Wall FBM, Heltne P (eds) Chimpanzee cultures. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, pp 351–370
24. McGrew WC (1974) Tool use by wild chimpanzees in feeding upon driver ants. J Hum Evol 3:501–508
25. McGrew WC (1992) Chimpanzee material culture. Implications for human evolution. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
26. Morgan BJ, Abwe EE (2006) Chimpanzees use stone hammers in Cameroon. Curr Biol 16:R632–R633
27. Nishida T, Hiraiwa M (1982) Natural history of a tool-using behavior by wild chimpanzees in feeding upon wood-boring ants. J Hum Evol 11:73–99
28. Nishida T, Uehara S (1983) Natural diet of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii): long-term record from the Mahale Mountains, Tanzania. Afr Stud Monogr 3:109–130
29. Njoya MTM (2010) Diversity of stingless bees in Bamenda Afromontane Forests—Cameroon: nest architecture, behaviour and labour calendar. Dissertation, Hohen Landwirtschaftlichen Fakultät der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn
30. Nyanganji G, Fowler A, McNamara A, Sommer V (2011) Monkeys and apes as animals and humans: ethno-primatology in Nigeriaʼs Taraba Region. In: Sommer V, Ross C (eds) Primates of Gashaka. Springer, Heidelberg, pp 101–134
31. Pascual-Garrido A, Umaru B, Allon O, Sommer V (2013) Apes finding ants: predator–prey dynamics in a chimpanzee habitat in Nigeria. Am J Primatol 75:1231–1244
32. Sanz C, Morgan D (2009) Flexible and persistent tool-using strategies in honey gathering by wild chimpanzees. Int J Primatol 30:411–427
33. Sanz CM, Morgan D, Gulick S (2004) New insights into chimpanzees, tools, and termites from the Congo Basin. Am Nat 164:567–581
34. Sanz CM, Schöning C, Morgan DB (2010) Chimpanzees prey on army ants with specialized tool set. Am J Primatol 72:17–24
35. Schöning C, Ellis D, Fowler A, Sommer V (2007) Army ant prey availability and consumption by Chimpanzees at Gashaka (Nigeria). J Zool 271:125–133
36. Sirianni G, Visalberghi E (2013) Wild bearded capuchins process cashew nuts without contacting caustic compounds. Am J Primatol 75:387–393
37. Sommer V, Buba U, Jesus G, Pascual-Garrido A (2012) Till the last drop. Honey gathering in Nigerian chimpanzees. Ecotropica 18:55–64
38. Sugiyama Y (1985) The brush-stick of chimpanzees found in south-west Cameroon and their cultural characteristics. Primates 26:361–374
39. Sugiyama Y (1995) Tool-use for catching ants by chimpanzees at Bossou and Monts Nimba, West Africa. Primates 36:193–205
40. Sugiyama Y, Koman J, Bhoye Sow M (1988) Ant-catching wands of wild chimpanzees at Bossou, Guinea. Folia Primatol 51:56–60
41. Takemoto H, Hirata S, Sugiyama Y (2005) The formation of the brush-sticks: modification of chimpanzees or the by-product of folding? Primates 46:183–189
42. Tutin CEG, Ham R, Wrogemann D (1995) Tool use by chimpanzees (Pan t. troglodytes) in the Lopé Reserve, Gabon. Primates 36:181–192
43. van Schaik CP (2009) Geographical variation in the behavior of wild great apes: is it really cultural? In: Laland KN, Galef BG (eds) The question of animal culture. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, pp 70–98
44. Whiten A, Goodall J, McGrew WC, Nishida T, Reynolds V, Sugiyama Y, Tutin CEG, Wrangham RW, Boesch C (1999) Cultures in chimpanzees. Nature 399:682–685
45. Whiten A, Goodall J, McGrew WC, Nishida T, Reynolds V, Sugiyama Y, Tutin CEG, Wrangham RW, Boesch C (2001) Charting cultural variation in chimpanzees. Behaviour 138:1481–1516
46. Yamamoto S, Yamakoshi G, Humle T, Matsuzawa T (2011) Ant fishing in trees: invention and modification of a new tool-use behavior. In: Matsuzawa T, Humle T, Sugiyama Y (eds) The Chimpanzees of Bossou and Nimba. Springer, Japan, pp 123–130