groom leaf

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Shot Date: 2003/10/18
Shot Location: Mahale Mountains National Park, Tanzania

* species
Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii

Key Words
tool use
groom
culture
chimpanzee
Mahale


Koichiro ZAMMA
2005/03/06 submitted



Animalia >Chordata >Mammalia >Primates >Hominidae >Pan >

A leaf was picked, seemingly at random. Holding the leaves in one hand, the chimp makes grooming movements with both thumbs, often pushing his lower lip to the leaf surface as in social grooming.

Nishida T, Kano T, Goodall J, McGrew WC, Nakamura M. 1999. Ethogram and ethnography of Mahale Chimpanzees. Anthropol. Sci., 107: 141-188.

Zamma K. 2002. Leaf-grooming by a wild chimpanzee in Mahale. Primates 43(1): 87-90.

(Data No.momo050302pt04a)

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