There is more than one way to crack an oyster: Identifying variation in burmese long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis aurea) stone-tool use

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Tan, Amanda ^a   Tan, Say Hoon ^a   Vyas, Dhaval ^b   Malaivijitnond, Suchinda ^c   Gumert, Michael D ^a,c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

^c CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY POSTURE; FEMALE; FOOD HANDLING; HAND GRIP; HAND MOVEMENT; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; ROCK; SEASHORE; THAILAND; TOOL USE; VIDEORECORDING; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL SHELL; BIOMECHANICS; DIET; HAND; OYSTER; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SHELLFISH;

MACACA; MACACA FASCICULARIS; OSTREIDAE; PRIMATES;

ANIMAL SHELLS; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; DIET; FEMALE; HAND; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; OSTREIDAE; POSTURE; SHELLFISH; THAILAND; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84929359168     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0124733     Document Type: Article

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