Captive chimpanzee takes down a drone: tool use toward a flying object

On 10 April 2015, a Dutch TV crew was filming at the Royal Burgers Zoo in Arnhem, The Netherlands. It was the intention to film the chimpanzees in the enclosure from close-by and from above with the means of a drone. When the drone came a bit closer to the chimpanzees, a female individual made two s...

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Autores principales: van Hooff, Jan A. R. A. M., Lukkenaar, Bas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Japan 2015
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News and Perspectives
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4580717/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26335688
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10329-015-0482-2
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description On 10 April 2015, a Dutch TV crew was filming at the Royal Burgers Zoo in Arnhem, The Netherlands. It was the intention to film the chimpanzees in the enclosure from close-by and from above with the means of a drone. When the drone came a bit closer to the chimpanzees, a female individual made two sweeps with a branch that she held in one hand. The second one was successful and downed the drone. The use of the stick in this context was a unique action. It seemed deliberate given the decision to collect it and carry it to a place where the drone might be attacked. This episode adds to the indications that chimpanzees engage in forward planning of tool-use acts. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s10329-015-0482-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-45807172015-10-01 Captive chimpanzee takes down a drone: tool use toward a flying object van Hooff, Jan A. R. A. M. Lukkenaar, Bas Primates News and Perspectives On 10 April 2015, a Dutch TV crew was filming at the Royal Burgers Zoo in Arnhem, The Netherlands. It was the intention to film the chimpanzees in the enclosure from close-by and from above with the means of a drone. When the drone came a bit closer to the chimpanzees, a female individual made two sweeps with a branch that she held in one hand. The second one was successful and downed the drone. The use of the stick in this context was a unique action. It seemed deliberate given the decision to collect it and carry it to a place where the drone might be attacked. This episode adds to the indications that chimpanzees engage in forward planning of tool-use acts. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s10329-015-0482-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Springer Japan 2015-09-03 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4580717/ /pubmed/26335688 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10329-015-0482-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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