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Preferential hand use by captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in manual and tool digging
Digging for underground storage organs of plants has been reported in various populations of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). However, it is unknown so far whether chimpanzees display lateral biases in manual digging as direct observations of this behavior are still lacking. It was therefore the...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6612319/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31006044 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10329-019-00727-y |
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author | Motes-Rodrigo, Alba Hernandez-Aguilar, R. Adriana Laska, Matthias |
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description | Digging for underground storage organs of plants has been reported in various populations of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). However, it is unknown so far whether chimpanzees display lateral biases in manual digging as direct observations of this behavior are still lacking. It was therefore the aim of the present study to assess, for the first time, hand preferences for digging in a group of nine captive chimpanzees. We found that with only one exception, all individuals engaged in manual digging for buried food. Five individuals displayed a significant right-hand preference, two a significant left-hand preference, and one was ambidextrous. No apparent differences between males and females were found with regard to the direction or strength of hand preferences for manual digging. Only one out of four parent–offspring pairs was congruent in their preferred hand for manual digging. Three of the eight chimpanzees who dug manually also used tools in order to excavate buried food. Among those three individuals, one displayed a significant right-, one a significant left-hand preference, and one was ambidextrous. Only one of these three chimpanzees was consistent in preferring the same hand for manual and tool digging. The present findings are in line with the notion that chimpanzees display significant hand preferences at the individual level for haptic-guided behaviors, with a tendency for the right hand. |
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spelling | pubmed-66123192019-07-23 Preferential hand use by captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in manual and tool digging Motes-Rodrigo, Alba Hernandez-Aguilar, R. Adriana Laska, Matthias Primates Original Article Digging for underground storage organs of plants has been reported in various populations of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). However, it is unknown so far whether chimpanzees display lateral biases in manual digging as direct observations of this behavior are still lacking. It was therefore the aim of the present study to assess, for the first time, hand preferences for digging in a group of nine captive chimpanzees. We found that with only one exception, all individuals engaged in manual digging for buried food. Five individuals displayed a significant right-hand preference, two a significant left-hand preference, and one was ambidextrous. No apparent differences between males and females were found with regard to the direction or strength of hand preferences for manual digging. Only one out of four parent–offspring pairs was congruent in their preferred hand for manual digging. Three of the eight chimpanzees who dug manually also used tools in order to excavate buried food. Among those three individuals, one displayed a significant right-, one a significant left-hand preference, and one was ambidextrous. Only one of these three chimpanzees was consistent in preferring the same hand for manual and tool digging. The present findings are in line with the notion that chimpanzees display significant hand preferences at the individual level for haptic-guided behaviors, with a tendency for the right hand. Springer Japan 2019-04-20 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6612319/ /pubmed/31006044 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10329-019-00727-y Text en © The Author(s) 2019 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. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Motes-Rodrigo, Alba Hernandez-Aguilar, R. Adriana Laska, Matthias Preferential hand use by captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in manual and tool digging |
title | Preferential hand use by captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in manual and tool digging |
title_full | Preferential hand use by captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in manual and tool digging |
title_fullStr | Preferential hand use by captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in manual and tool digging |
title_full_unstemmed | Preferential hand use by captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in manual and tool digging |
title_short | Preferential hand use by captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in manual and tool digging |
title_sort | preferential hand use by captive chimpanzees (pan troglodytes) in manual and tool digging |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6612319/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31006044 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10329-019-00727-y |
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