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Ecology of culture: do environmental factors influence foraging tool use in wild chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes verus?

Authors: Kathelijne Koops, William C. McGrew, Tetsuro Matsuzawa

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: *tool use, ant dipping, chimpanzee, culture, necessity hypothesis, nut cracking, opportunity hypothesis, pan troglodytes verus, termite fishing

2013

How Do Banded Mongooses Locate and Select Anvils for Cracking Encased Food Items?

Authors: K. McAuliffe, A. Thornton

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes

Keywords: banded mongooses, extractive foraging, field experiments, physical cognition, rules of thumb

2012

Stone tool use in wild bearded capuchin monkeys, Cebus libidinosus. Is it a strategy to overcome food scarcity?

Authors: N. Spagnoletti, E. Visalberghi, M.P. Verderane, E. Ottoni, P. Izar, D. Fragaszy

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: *tool use, bearded capuchin, cebus libidinosus, fallback food, necessity hypothesis, nut cracking, opportunity hypothesis

2012

Voluntary ingestion of buprenorphine in mice

Authors: K. R. Jacobsen, O. Kalliokoski, J. Hau, K. S. P. Abelson

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: analgesia, animal welfare, buprenorphine, mice, refinement, voluntary ingestion

2011

Wild bearded capuchin monkeys (Cebus libidinosus) place nuts in anvils selectively

Authors: Qing Liu, Dorothy Fragaszy, Barth Wright, Kristin Wright, Patricia Izar, Elisabetta Visalberghi

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: *tool use, affordance, anvil use, capuchin, cebus libidinosus, embodied cognition, nut cracking, perception-action, selectivity, social influence

2011

Social Learning of Nut-Cracking Behavior in East African Sanctuary-Living Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii)

Authors: Sarah Marshall-Pescini, Andrew Whiten

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: *tool use, chimpanzees, nut cracking, social learning

2008

Bird-mammal associations in forest openings of northern Congo (Brazzaville)

Authors: R.G. Ruggiero, H.E. Eves

Publication/Journal: African Journal of Ecology

Keywords: birds, commensalism, congo, forest, mammals, symbiosis

1998

Coated nuts as an enrichment device to elicit tool use in tufted capuchins (Cebus apella)

Authors: Elisabetta Visalberghi, Augusto F. Vitale

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: environmental enrichment, nut cracking, primates

1990

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