New Record of Fishing for Termites (Macrotermes) by the Chimpanzees of Bossou (Pan troglodytes verus), Guinea
New Record of Fishing for Termites (Macrotermes) by the Chimpanzees of Bossou (Pan troglodytes verus), Guinea
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几内亚博苏 (Pan troglodytes verus) 黑猩猩捕捞白蚁 (Macrotermes) 的新纪录
DOI：
10.5134/143394
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发表时间：
1999
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
T. Humle
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作者：
T. Humle
小种，已知发生在从稀树草原到常绿森林的栖息地(1)。在黑猩猩的多种工具制作和使用行为中，白蚁钓鱼是分布最广的行为之一。在几内亚的博苏。西非；到目前为止只观察到一次黑猩猩(P.T.verus)使用工具来开发统一的树栖白蚁(2)。他们把树枝塞进树洞里，挤压树梢上的昆虫，然后被猿猴舔走。博苏黑猩猩一直被认为忽视大白蚁属的白蚁，因为它们的家乡有大量的陆栖丘陵。在长达三个月的研究期间(1997年8月至10月)，观察到来自博苏社区的一只成年雌性和她的雄性后代用工具捕捞大白蚁。这才是。博苏黑猩猩第一次用工具捕捉地面栖息的白蚁。
races, and is known to occur in habitats ranging from savanna to evergreen forest (1). Of the many kinds of tool-making and tool-using behaviours of chimpanzees, termite-fishing is one of the most · widely distributed behaviours. At Bossou, Guinea, . West Africa; chimpanzees (P. t. verus) have so far only once been observed to use tools to exploit unidentnied arboreal termites (2). They jammed twigs into tree holes, squashing the insects on the toofs tip, from which the apes licked them off. The Bossou chimpanzees were always thought to ignore termites of the genus Macrotermes, whose terrestrial mounds are abundant in their home range. During a study period extending over ,three months (August-October 1997) during the midrainy season, an adult female and her male offspring from the Bossou community were observed fishing for Macrotermes termites with tools. This is . the first record of fishing for ground-dwelling termites with tools by Bossou chimpanzees.