Percussive tool use by Taï western chimpanzees and fazenda boa vista bearded capuchin monkeys: A comparison

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1682, 2015, Pages

  Visalberghi, Elisabetta ^a   Sirianni, Giulia ^b   Fragaszy, Dorothy ^c   Boesch, Christophe ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^c University of Georgia   (United States)

Author keywords

Kinematics; Percussive tool use; Tool modification; Tool selection; Tool transport

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; HUMAN EVOLUTION; KINEMATICS; NUT; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PRIMATE; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; TOOL USE; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

COTE D'IVOIRE; PORTUGAL;

CEBUS; PAN;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; CEBUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NUT; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TOOL USE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY SIZE; CEBUS; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MOTOR SKILLS; NUTS; PAN TROGLODYTES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84944617384     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0351     Document Type: Review

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