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New paper on a new chimpanzee behavioural variant! Algae fishing in Bakoun, Guinea

  • MimiA by MimiA scientist, moderator

    paper: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajp.22613/full

    We began the Pan African Programme: the Cultured Chimpanzee (PanAf) in the hopes of discovering new chimpanzee cultures and cultural variants in previously poorly- and unstudied populations. Earlier this year we documented the occurrence of a new behaviour, chimpanzee accumulative stone throwing, present in four populations in West Africa. Today we are happy to announce the publication of our new study reporting on an new behavioural variant of algae fishing by chimpanzees in Guinea!

    These videos have not yet been up on Chimp&See yet and you can see that one of the limitations of our study was that the chimps from these videos have not yet been identified. We're hoping to have these up sometime in 2017 and look forward to matching some chimps with you then!

    more at the blog post: http://chimpandsee.blogspot.com/2016/11/a-new-chimpanzee-behavioural-variant.html

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  • Boleyn by Boleyn moderator

    oh wow, thanks for sharing, @MimiA! I'm looking forward to explore this site. What an interesting behaviour and the quality of the videos seems to be very well 😄

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  • MimiA by MimiA scientist, moderator

    I mentioned this on twitter today so thought I wold mention it here too - something very cool we mention in the paper is that traditional algae harvesting in Thaliand is done very similarly to the way the Bakoun chimps do it: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/277776578_fig1_Figure-1-Traditional-harvesting-method

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  • Boleyn by Boleyn moderator

    haha, yup, but by people 😃

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