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dc.contributor.authorvan Leeuwen, Edwin J. C.
dc.contributor.authorCronin, Katherine A.
dc.contributor.authorHaun, Daniel B. M.
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-16T10:30:14Z
dc.date.available2017-03-16T10:30:14Z
dc.date.issued2017-03-13
dc.identifier.citationvan Leeuwen , E J C , Cronin , K A & Haun , D B M 2017 , ' Tool use for corpse cleaning in chimpanzees ' , Scientific Reports , vol. 7 , 44091 . https://doi.org/10.1038/srep44091en
dc.identifier.issn2045-2322
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 249062904
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 35f45555-d7bc-4040-b606-2c3422faa42b
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85015195035
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000396422300001
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/10479
dc.description.abstractFor the first time, chimpanzees have been observed using tools to clean the corpse of a deceased group member. A female chimpanzee sat down at the dead body of a young male, selected a firm stem of grass, and started to intently remove debris from his teeth. This report contributes novel behaviour to the chimpanzee’s ethogram, and highlights how crucial information for reconstructing the evolutionary origins of human mortuary practices may be missed by refraining from developing adequate observation techniques to capture non-human animals’ death responses.
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dc.language.isoeng
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dc.rights© The Author(s) 2017. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectRC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatryen
dc.subjectQH301 Biologyen
dc.subjectQL Zoologyen
dc.subjectQP Physiologyen
dc.subjectNDASen
dc.subject.lccRC0321en
dc.subject.lccQH301en
dc.subject.lccQLen
dc.subject.lccQPen
dc.titleTool use for corpse cleaning in chimpanzeesen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPublisher PDFen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Psychology and Neuroscienceen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1038/srep44091
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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