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Nature 428, 715-716 (15 April 2004) | doi:10.1038/428715a
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Sex differences in learning in chimpanzees
Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf1, Lynn E. Eberly2 & Anne E. Pusey1
Abstract
The wild chimpanzees in Gombe National Park, Tanzania, fish for termites with flexible tools that they make out of vegetation, inserting them into the termite mound and then extracting and eating the termites that cling to the tool1. Tools may be used in different ways by different chimpanzee communities according to the local chimpanzee culture2. Here we describe the results of a four-year longitudinal field study in which we investigated how this cultural behaviour is learned by the community's offspring. We find that there are distinct sex-based differences, akin to those found in human children, in the way in which young chimpanzees develop their termite-fishing skills.
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