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First observation of Dorylus ant feeding in Budongo chimpanzees supports absence of stick-tool culture

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07/2016
Author
Mugisha, Steven
Zuberbuehler, Klaus
Hobaiter, Catherine
Keywords
Tool use
Chimpanzee
Pan troglodytes
Schweinfurthii
Culture
BF Psychology
QL Zoology
NDAS
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Abstract
The use of stick- or probe-tools is a chimpanzee universal, recorded in all long-term study populations across Africa, except one: Budongo, Uganda. Here, after 25-years of observation, stick-tool use remains absent under both natural circumstances and strong experimental scaffolding. Instead, the chimpanzees employ a rich repertoire of leaf-tools for a variety of dietary and hygiene tasks. One use of stick-tools in other communities is in feeding on the aggressive Dorylus ‘army-ant’ species, consumed by chimpanzees at all long-term study sites outside of mid-Western Uganda. Here we report the first observation of army-ant feeding in Budongo, in which individuals from the Waibira chimpanzee community employed detached leaves to feed on a ground swarm. We describe the behaviour and discuss whether or not it can be considered tool-use, together with its implication for the absence of stick-tool ‘culture’ in Budongo chimpanzees.
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Mugisha , S , Zuberbuehler , K & Hobaiter , C 2016 , ' First observation of Dorylus ant feeding in Budongo chimpanzees supports absence of stick-tool culture ' , Primates , vol. 57 , no. 3 , pp. 389-394 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-016-0533-3
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Primates
Status
Peer reviewed
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-016-0533-3
ISSN
0032-8332
Type
Journal article
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© The Author(s) 2016. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://​creativecommons.​org/​licenses/​by/​4.​0/​), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC grant agreement no 283871.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/8560

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