groom hand clasp

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Shot Date: 2003/11/03
Shot Location: Mahale Mountains National Park, Tanzania

* species
Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii

Key Words
grooming
culture
chimpanzee
Mahale


Koichiro ZAMMA
2005/03/09 submitted



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

One chimpanzee hand clasps the other, and they groom each other. Pattern of mutual grooming seen at Mahale, Kibale, Lope, Budongo and Tai, but not at Gombe or Bossou.

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

Nakamura M 2002. Grooming-hand-clasp in Mahale M group chimpanzees: implication for culture in social behaviors. In: C Boesch, G Hohmann, & LF Marchant (eds), Behavioral Diversity in Chimpanzees and Bonobos, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp.71-83.

Nakamura M & Uehara S 2004. Proximate factors of two types of grooming-hand-clasp in Mahale chimpanzees: implication for chimpanzee social customs. Current Anthropology, 45: 108-114.

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