Chimpanzee extractive foraging with excavating tools: Experimental modeling of the origins of human technology.

It is hypothesized that tool-assisted excavation of plant underground storage organs (USOs) played an adaptive role in hominin evolution and was also once considered a uniquely human behavior. Recent data indicate that savanna chimpanzees also use tools to excavate edible USOs. However, those chimpa...

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Main Authors: Alba Motes-Rodrigo, Parandis Majlesi, Travis Rayne Pickering, Matthias Laska, Helene Axelsen, Tanya C Minchin, Claudio Tennie, R Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215644