Is primate tool use special? Chimpanzee and New Caledonian crow compared

'Captivity bias' in animal tool use and its implications for the evolution of hominin technology

(2013) M. Haslam   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Ecological and social correlates of chimpanzee tool use

(2013) C. M. Sanz et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

New Caledonian crows attend to multiple functional properties of complex tools

(2013) J. J. H. St Clair et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The fourth dimension of tool use: temporally enduring artefacts aid primates learning to use tools

(2013) D. M. Fragaszy et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

If at first you don't succeed... Studies of ontogeny shed light on the cognitive demands of habitual tool use

(2013) E. J. M. Meulman et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Long-tailed macaques select mass of stone tools according to food type

(2013) M. D. Gumert et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A Thermodynamic Comparison of Arboreal and Terrestrial Sleeping Sites for Dry-Habitat Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) at the Toro-Semliki Wildlife Reserve, Uganda

(2012) DAVID R. SAMSON et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Chimpanzee carrying behaviour and the origins of human bipedality

(2012) Susana Carvalho et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Automated mapping of social networks in wild birds

(2012) Christian Rutz et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Obtaining Raw Material: Plants as Tool Sources for Nigerian Chimpanzees

(2012) Alejandra Pascual-Garrido et al.   FOLIA PRIMATOLOGICA

Nest-Building by Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) at Seringbara, Nimba Mountains: Antipredation, Thermoregulation, and Antivector Hypotheses

(2012) Kathelijne Koops et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Restricted gene flow and fine-scale population structuring in tool using New Caledonian crows

(2012) C. Rutz et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Spontaneous Innovation for Future Deception in a Male Chimpanzee

(2012) Mathias Osvath et al.   PLoS One

The chimpanzee nest quantified: morphology and ecology of arboreal sleeping platforms within the dry habitat site of Toro-Semliki Wildlife Reserve, Uganda

(2012) David R. Samson   PRIMATES

Brief communication: Why sleep in a nest? empirical testing of the function of simple shelters made by wild chimpanzees

(2011) F.A. Stewart   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Grass-Stem Tool use in New Caledonian CrowsCorvus moneduloides

(2011) Jolyon Troscianko et al.   ARDEA

The evolutionary origins and ecological context of tool use in New Caledonian crows

(2011) Christian Rutz et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Semaphorin and Eph Receptor Signaling Guide a Series of Cell Movements for Ventral Enclosure in C. elegans

(2011) Richard Ikegami et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Living archaeology: Artefacts of specific nest site fidelity in wild chimpanzees

(2011) F.A. Stewart et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

New Caledonian Crows Learn the Functional Properties of Novel Tool Types

(2011) Alex H. Taylor et al.   PLoS One

The social structure of New Caledonian crows

(2010) J.C. Holzhaider et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

New Caledonian crows use tools for non-foraging activities

(2010) Joanna H. Wimpenny et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Vocal culture in New Caledonian crows Corvus moneduloides

(2010) LUCAS A. BLUFF et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Tool-Making New Caledonian Crows Have Large Associative Brain Areas

(2010) Julia Mehlhorn et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Sex differences in chimpanzees' use of sticks as play objects resemble those of children

(2010) Sonya M. Kahlenberg et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

In search of the last common ancestor: new findings on wild chimpanzees

(2010) W. C. McGrew   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Complex cognition and behavioural innovation in New Caledonian crows

(2010) A. H. Taylor et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Tool use by wild New Caledonian crows Corvus moneduloides at natural foraging sites

(2010) L. A. Bluff et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Ecological Significance of Tool Use in New Caledonian Crows

(2010) C. Rutz et al.   SCIENCE

Chimpanzee Technology

(2010) W. C. McGrew   SCIENCE

The physical characteristics and usage patterns of stone axe and pounding hammers used by long-tailed macaques in the Andaman Sea region of Thailand

(2009) Michael D. Gumert et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Leaf-tool use for drinking water by wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): acquisition patterns and handedness

(2009) Cláudia Sousa et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

The Role of Experience in Problem Solving and Innovative Tool Use in Crows

(2009) Auguste M.P. von Bayern et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Tool use and physical cognition in birds and mammals

(2009) Nathan J Emery et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Intelligence in Corvids and Apes: A Case of Convergent Evolution?

(2009) Amanda Seed et al.   ETHOLOGY

Complex tool sets for honey extraction among chimpanzees in Loango National Park, Gabon

(2009) Christophe Boesch et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Cognitive Processes Associated with Sequential Tool Use in New Caledonian Crows

(2009) Joanna H. Wimpenny et al.   PLoS One

Do chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) use cleavers and anvils to fracture Treculia africana fruits? Preliminary data on a new form of percussive technology

(2009) Kathelijne Koops et al.   PRIMATES

The enhanced tool-kit of two groups of wild bearded capuchin monkeys in the Caatinga: tool making, associative use, and secondary tools

(2008) Massimo Mannu et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Extraordinary large brains in tool-using New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides)

(2008) Julia Cnotka et al.   NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS