Food cleaning in gorillas: Social learning is a possibility but not a necessity.

Food cleaning is widespread in the animal kingdom, and a recent report confirmed that (amongst other behaviours) wild western lowland gorillas also show food cleaning. The authors of this report conclude that this behaviour, based on its distribution patterns, constitutes a potential candidate for c...

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Main Authors: Damien Neadle, Matthias Allritz, Claudio Tennie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5714332?pdf=render