Laterality in hand use across four tool-use behaviors among the wild chimpanzees of Bossou, Guinea, West Africa |
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Authors: | Humle Tatyana Matsuzawa Tetsuro |
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Institution: | Wildlife Research Center, University of Kyoto, c/o Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO), Kyoto, Japan. thumle@wrc.kyoto-u.ac.jp |
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Abstract: | Population-level right handedness is a human universal, whose evolutionary origins are the source of considerable empirical and theoretical debate. Although our closest neighbor, the chimpanzee, shows some evidence for population-level handedness in captivity, there is little evidence from the wild. Tool-use measures of hand use in chimpanzees have yielded a great deal of variation in directionality and strength in hand preference, which still remains largely unexplored and unexplained. Data on five measures of hand use across four tool-use skills--ant-dipping, algae-scooping, pestle-pounding and nut-cracking--among the wild chimpanzees of Bossou, Guinea, West Africa, are presented here. This study aims to explore age- and sex-class effects, as well as the influence of task motor, cognitive and haptic demands, on the strength and directionality of hand preference within and across all five measures of hand use. Although there was no age- or sex-class effect on the directionality of hand preference, immature
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Keywords: | chimpanzee hand use tool use laterality Bossou |
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