McGrew W C, Pruetz J D, Fulton S J
Department of Anthropology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056, USA.
Folia Primatol (Basel). 2005 Jul-Aug;76(4):222-6. doi: 10.1159/000086023.
Use of flexible probes to fish for macrotermitine termites and manufactured wands to dip for doriline ants is reported for a new site of chimpanzee field study. The flexible probes of vegetation used in termite fishing and ant dipping by the chimpanzees of Fongoli, in southeastern Senegal, are similar to those used at Assirik (Senegal) and Gombe (Tanzania). Based on the principle that form reflects function, we predict that ant dipping when seen will prove to be the two-handed technique.
据报道,在一个新的黑猩猩野外研究地点,人们使用柔性探针钓大白蚁,并用特制的棒蘸取多里蚁。塞内加尔东南部丰戈利的黑猩猩在钓白蚁和蘸取蚂蚁时使用的柔性植物探针,与塞内加尔的阿西里克和坦桑尼亚的贡贝所使用的类似。基于形式反映功能的原则,我们预测,当观察到蘸取蚂蚁的行为时,会发现这是一种双手操作的技术。