Tools to tipple: Ethanol ingestion by wild chimpanzees using leaf-sponges

Royal Society Open Science

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Hockings, Kimberley J ^a,b   Bryson Morrison, Nicola ^c   Carvalho, Susana ^d,e   Fujisawa, Michiko ^f   Humle, Tatyana ^c   McGrew, William C ^g   Nakamura, Miho ^f   Ohashi, Gaku ^f,h,i   Yamanashi, Yumi ^f   Yamakoshi, Gen ^f   Matsuzawa, Tetsuro ^f,h  

^a UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^b OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^d THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

^f KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^h JAPAN MONKEY CENTRE   (Japan)

ⁱ CHUBU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Elementary tool use; Ethanol ingestion; Great apes; Raffia palm

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958087926     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20545703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.150150     Document Type: Article

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