Change the hands of groom-hand-clasp

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Shot Date: 2003/08/21
Shot Location: Mahale Mountains National Park, Tanzania

* species
Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii

Key Words
grooming
symmetry




Koichiro ZAMMA
2006/07/18 submitted



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

Chimpanzees groom mutually holding left arms of the partner with left hands, then they change the clasping hands.

Nishida T, Kano T, Goodall J, McGrew WC, Nakamura M. 1999. Ethogram and ethnography of Mahale Chimpanzees. Anthropol. Sci., 107: 141-188. Nakamura M, Uehara S 2004. Proximate factors of two types of grooming-hand-clasp in Mahale chimpanzees: implication for chimpanzee social customs. Current Anthropology 45: 108-114. Nakamura M 2002. Grooming-hand-clasp in Mahale M group chimpanzees: implication for culture in social behaviors. In: Behavioural Diversity in Chimpanzees and Bonobos C Boesch, G Hohmann, LF Marchant (eds), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge pp. 71-83. McGrew WC, Marchant LF, Nakamura M, Nishida T 2001. Local customs in wild chimpanzees: the grooming hand-clasp in the Mahale Mountains, Tanzania. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 32: 107

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