Brachiate

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Shot Date: 2002/09/27
Shot Location: Mahale Mountains National Park, Tanzania

* species
Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii

Key Words
brachiation
locomotion
arm-swinging
chimpanzee
Mahale


Toshisada Nishida
2005/01/27 submitted



Animalia >Chordata >Mammalia >Primates >Hominidae >Pan >

Chimpanzees engage in the below-branch arm-swinging movement called "brachiation" mainly when they climb down from a tree to the ground, or moving to the terminal branch to eat fruits, leaves or flowers.

Nishida T, Kano T, Goodall J, McGrew WC, Nakamura M. 1999. Ethogram and ethnography of Mahale Chimpanzees. Anthropol. Sci., 107: 141-188.

(Data No.momo050113pt08a)

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