Zoo-Housed Chimpanzees Can Spontaneously Use Tool Sets But Perseverate on Previously Successful Tool-Use Methods

Tool use is documented in both wild and captive chimpanzees, but the creation of tool sets (e.g., two, or more, tools used in a sequence to solve a task), seems to be less common. This has raised the question of whether tool sets are a culture-dependent trait (CDT), or can be re-innovated independen...

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Main Authors: Laura M. Bernstein-Kurtycz, Lydia M. Hopper, Stephen R. Ross, Claudio Tennie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Animal Behavior and Cognition 2020-08-01
Series:Animal Behavior and Cognition
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Online Access:http://www.animalbehaviorandcognition.org/uploads/journals/28/AB_C_2020_Vol7(3)_Bernstein_Kurtycz_et%20al.pdf