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