The Appearance and Spread of Ant Fishing among the Kasekela Chimpanzees of Gombe
- 1 October 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in Current Anthropology
- Vol. 53 (5) , 650-663
Abstract
Chimpanzees exhibit cultural variation, yet examples of successful cultural transmission between wild communities are lacking. Here we provide the first account of tool-assisted predation (“ant fis...Keywords
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