TY - JOUR
AU - TUTIN, CAROLINE E. G.
AB - TOOL use by animals is characteristically restricted to agonistic, exploratory, or self-maintenance contexts, and we have only one record of its use in social grooming1. Belle, a female chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) at the Delta Regional Primate Research Center, used sticks as aids in grooming the teeth of other individuals, and on one occasion she fashioned a stick tool by stripping a twig of its leaves. In 135 h of observation over 6 weeks, we recorded forty-five bouts of dental grooming: four of tool use (all social), twenty-three of social grooming, seven of attempted social grooming, and eleven of self grooming. Dental grooming occurred on 16 of the 27 observation days.
TI - Chimpanzee Tool Use in Dental Grooming
JF - Nature
DO - 10.1038/241477a0
DA - 1973-02-16
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/chimpanzee-tool-use-in-dental-grooming-3BSxSOZeaa
SP - 477
EP - 478
VL - 241
IS - 5390
DP - DeepDyve
ER -