Do Chimpanzees Use Weight to Select Hammer Tools?

Cornelia Schrauf; Josep Call; Koki Fuwa; Satoshi Hirata

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0041044

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Do Chimpanzees Use Weight to Select Hammer Tools?

Cornelia Schrauf ,

* E-mail: connyschrauf@chello.at

Affiliation Department of Behavioural Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Josep Call,

Affiliation Department for Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
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Koki Fuwa,

Affiliation Great Ape Research Institute, Hayashibara Biochemical Laboratories, Tamano, Okayama, Japan
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Satoshi Hirata

Affiliation Great Ape Research Institute, Hayashibara Biochemical Laboratories, Tamano, Okayama, Japan
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Do Chimpanzees Use Weight to Select Hammer Tools?

Cornelia Schrauf,
Josep Call,
Koki Fuwa,
Satoshi Hirata

Published: July 18, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0041044

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The following article represents some of the media coverage that has occurred for this paper:

Publication: EurekAlert
Title: “Primate behavior: Chimps select smart tools, monkeys intentionally beg”
http://www.eurekalert.org...

Publication: Scientific American Blogs
Title: “For Chimps, Tool Choice Is A Weighty Matter | The Thoughtful Animal, Scientific American Blog Network”
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RE: Media Coverage of This Article

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The following article represents some of the media coverage that has occurred for this paper:

Publication: Notes From Two Scientific Psychologists
Title: “Notes from Two Scientific Psychologists: Cracking the Tough Nut of Chimp Tool Use”
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