title: Primatology: advanced ape technology.
abstract: New findings from African rainforests show chimpanzees to have impressively advanced technology. They make tools of vegetation to harvest termites as in East and West Africa, but some apes in Central Africa show different techniques and tool sets geared for different tasks.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Anthropology and Zoology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056, USA. mcgrewwc@muohio.edu
authors.forename: W C
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: McGrew
mesh_terms: D000349:Africa; D000818:Animals; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D007858:Learning; D009048:Motor Skills; D002679:Pan troglodytes / Q000502:physiology*