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Apes in Africa: The cultured chimpanzees

Do chimpanzees have traditions? As wild populations dwindle, researchers are racing to find out.

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Gayathri Vaidyanathan is an International Development Research Center fellow at Nature.

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Vaidyanathan, G. Apes in Africa: The cultured chimpanzees. Nature 476, 266–269 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/476266a

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