Chimpanzee accumulative stone throwing

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Kühl, Hjalmar S ^a,b   Kalan, Ammie K ^a   Arandjelovic, Mimi ^a   Aubert, Floris ^c   D'Auvergne, Lucy ^c   Goedmakers, Annemarie ^d   Jones, Sorrel ^a   Kehoe, Laura ^c   Regnaut, Sebastien ^c   Tickle, Alexander ^a   Ton, Els ^a,d   Van Schijndel, Joost ^a,d   Abwe, Ekwoge E ^e   Angedakin, Samuel ^a   Agbor, Anthony ^a   Ayimisin, Emmanuel Ayuk ^a   Bailey, Emma ^a   Bessone, Mattia ^a   Bonnet, Matthieu ^f   Brazolla, Gregory ^a   Buh, Valentine Ebua ^a   Chancellor, Rebecca ^g   Cipoletta, Chloe ^h   Cohen, Heather ^a   Corogenes, Katherine ^a   Coupland, Charlotte ^a   Curran, Bryan ^f   Deschner, Tobias ^a   Dierks, Karsten ^a   Dieguez, Paula ^a   Dilambaka, Emmanuel ^h   Diotoh, Orume ⁱ   Dowd, Dervla ^c   Dunn, Andrew ^h   Eshuis, Henk ^a   Fernandez, Rumen ^a   Ginath, Yisa ^a   Hart, John ^j   Hedwig, Daniela ^f   Heegde, Martijn Ter ^k   Hicks, Thurston Cleveland ^a   Imong, Inaoyom ^a,h   Jeffery, Kathryn J ^l,m,n   Junker, Jessica ^a   Kadam, Parag ^o   Kambi, Mohamed ^a   Kienast, Ivonne ^a   Kujirakwinja, Deo ^h   Langergraber, Kevin ^p   Lapeyre, Vincent ^c   Lapuente, Juan ^a   Lee, Kevin ^a   Leinert, Vera ^c   Meier, Amelia ^a   Maretti, Giovanna ^a   Marrocoli, Sergio ^a   Mbi, Tanyi Julius ^a   Mihindou, Vianet ^l   Moebius, Yasmin ^a   Morgan, David ^h,q   Morgan, Bethan ^e,r   Mulindahabi, Felix ^h   Murai, Mizuki ^a   Niyigabae, Protais ^h   Normand, Emma ^c   Ntare, Nicolas ^h   Ormsby, Lucy Jayne ^a   Piel, Alex ^s   Pruetz, Jill ^t   Rundus, Aaron ^g   Sanz, Crickette ^h,u   Sommer, Volker ^v   Stewart, Fiona ^o   Tagg, Nikki ^w   Vanleeuwe, Hilde ^h   Vergnes, Virginie ^c   Willie, Jacob ^w   Wittig, Roman M ^a,x   Zuberbuehler, Klaus ^y   Boesch, Christophe ^a,c   more..

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c Wild Chimpanzee Foundation   (Germany)

^d Chimbo Foundation   (Netherlands)

^e Ebo Forest Research Project   (Cameroon)

^f Aspinall Foundation   (United Kingdom)

^g WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

ⁱ Korup Rainforest Conservation Society ^*  (Cameroon)

^j Lukuru Foundation   (Congo)

^k WWF Cameroon   (Cameroon)

^l Agence National des Parcs Nationaux (ANPN)   (Gabon)

^m UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ Institute de Recherche en Ecologie Tropicale   (Gabon)

^o UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^p ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^q LINCOLN PARK ZOO   (United States)

^r INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION RESEARCH   (United States)

^s LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^t IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^u WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^v UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^w CENTRE FOR RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION   (Belgium)

^x CENTRE SUISSE DE RECHERCHES SCIENTIFIQUES EN CÔTE D'IVOIRE   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^y UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTIFACT; CHIMPANZEE; FORAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; RITUAL; TOOL USE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; GEOGRAPHY; PAN TROGLODYTES;

AFRICA, WESTERN; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; GEOGRAPHY; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 84976901350     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep22219     Document Type: Article

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