Pal, A and Sinha, A (2022) Beyond food for thought: tool use and manufacture by wild nonhuman primates in nonforaging contexts. In: Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 47 .
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Abstract
Tool use and manufacture by wild nonhuman primates in nonforaging contexts � an important indicator of their technical intelligence � is widespread across taxa, but is sporadic in occurrence. Such behaviors are usually displayed by one or a few individuals within a population and typically occur in four contexts: aggression, communication and sexual display, hygiene, and in the modification of the environment. The cultural transmission of such tool use is often restricted by several socio-cognitive and ecological factors. Considering the relative rarity of nonforaging tool use in the wild, we recommend the development of standardized methodologies for long-term data collection under natural conditions and the establishment of novel experimental paradigms to conduct comparative studies on captive primates. © 2022 Elsevier Ltd
| Item Type: | Editorials/Short Communications |
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| Publication: | Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences |
| Publisher: | Elsevier Ltd |
| Additional Information: | The copyright for this article belongs to the authors |
| Keywords: | adult; aggression; comparative study; female; human experiment; hygiene; intelligence; male; nonhuman; primate; review; tool use |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Biological Sciences > Centre for Neuroscience |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Sep 2022 06:12 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Sep 2022 06:12 |
| URI: | https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/76424 |
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