Planning abilities of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) in tool-using contexts.

ABSTRACT: Planning is a type of problem solving in which a course of future action is devised via mental computation. Potential advantages of planning for tool use include reduced effort to gather tools, closer alignment to an efficient tool design, and increased foraging efficiency. Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) in the Goualougo Triangle use a variety of different types of tools. We hypothesized that procurement strategy (brought to the termite nest, manufactured or acquired at the termite nest, or borrowed from others) reflects planning for current needs, with tool transport behavior varying by tool type and by age and sex class. It is also possible that chimpanzees anticipate the need for tools at future times, which would be evidenced by transporting multiple tool types for a sequent

SUBMITTER: Musgrave S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11561005 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature