Par Ellen MEULMAN, post-doctorante de l'équipe FUNEVOL, UMR 7179 MECADEV - Mécanismes adaptatifs et
Evolution et Shelly MASI , maîtresse de conférences de l'équipe Eco-ethology and cognitive ethology, UMR 7206 - Eco-anthropologie et Ethnobiologie
The study of food-manipulation techniques
may help us to identify subtle behavioral variation that currently
remains unidentified with the traditional ethonographic
approaches. Preliminary results from
frame by frame
video analysis of 1 habituated group
of wild western gorillas at Bai Hokou, Central African Republic,
suggest that food features (e.g. size, shape, extraction
requirements) affect
individual food-manipulation strategies in gorillas. The
preliminary results moreover suggest that wild gorillas show
weaker hand preferences than their (non-writing) human
counterparts living in the same habitat.
Par Ellen MEULMAN, post-doctorante de l'équipe FUNEVOL, UMR 7179 MECADEV - Mécanismes adaptatifs et
Evolution et Shelly MASI , maîtresse de conférences de l'équipe Eco-ethology and cognitive ethology, UMR 7206 - Eco-anthropologie et Ethnobiologie
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