Travel fosters tool use in wild chimpanzees

Ecological variation influences the appearance and maintenance of tool use in animals, either due to necessity or opportunity, but little is known about the relative importance of these two factors. Here, we combined long-term behavioural data on feeding and travelling with six years of field experi...

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Main Authors: Thibaud Gruber, Klaus Zuberbühler, Christof Neumann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2016-07-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/16371