12. Tools, Traditions, and Technologies: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Chimpanzee Nut Cracking

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. 1. The Chimpanzee Mind: Bridging Fieldwork and Laboratory Work 1
6. Part I. Cognitive Mechanisms
7. 2. Early Social Cognition in Chimpanzees 23
8. 3. Using an Object Manipulation Task as a Scale for Comparing Cognitive Development in Chimpanzees and Humans 32
9. 4. Do the Chimpanzee Eyes Have It? 42
10. 5. Understanding the Expression and Classification of Chimpanzee Facial Expressions 52
11. 6. Behavioral and Brain Asymmetries in Chimpanzees 60
12. 7. Trapping the Minds of Apes: Causal Knowledge and Inferential Reasoning about Object-Object Interactions 75
13. Part II. Tool Use and Culture
14. 8. A Coming of Age for Cultural Panthropology 87
15. 9. The Cultural Mind of Chimpanzees: How Social Tolerance Can Shape the Transmission of Culture 101
16. 10. How Are Army Ants Shedding New Light on Culture in Chimpanzees? 116
17. 11. The Complexity of Chimpanzee Tool-Use Behaviors 127
18. 12. Tools, Traditions, and Technologies: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Chimpanzee Nut Cracking 141
19. 13. Ubiquity of Culture and Possible Social Inheritance of Sociality among Wild Chimpanzees 156
20. 14. New Th eaters of Conflict in the Animal Culture Wars: Recent Findings from Chimpanzees 168
21. Part III. Social Minds: Ecological Perspectives
22. 15. Chimpanzee Minds in Nature 181
23. 16. Vocal Communication in Chimpanzees 192
24. 17. Th e Function and Cognitive Underpinnings of Post-Conflict Affiliation in Wild Chimpanzees 208
25. 18. Th e Role of Intelligence in Group Hunting: Are Chimpanzees Different from Other Social Predators? 220
26. Part IV. Social Minds: Empirical Perspectives
27. 19. Chimpanzee Social Cognition 235
28. 20. Intentional Communication and Comprehension of the Partner’s Role in Experimental Cooperative Tasks 251
29. 21. Collaboration and Helping in Chimpanzees 265
30. 22. Inequity and Prosocial Behavior in Chimpanzees 282
31. 23. The Need for a Bottom-Up Approach to Chimpanzee Cognition 296
32. Part V. Ethics, Care, and Conservation
33. 24. How Cognitive Studies Help Shape Our Obligation for the Ethical Care of Chimpanzees 309
34. 25. Positive Reinforcement Training, Social Learning, and Chimpanzee Welfare 320
35. 26. Chimpanzee Orphans: Sanctuaries, Reintroduction, and Cognition 332
36. 27. Human-Chimpanzee Competition and Conflict in Africa: A Case Study of Coexistence in Bossou, Republic of Guinea 347
37. 28. Chimpanzee Mind, Behavior, and Conservation 361
38. Afterword: Meanings of Chimpanzee Mind 370
39. Appendix: Major Chimpanzee Research Sites 375
40. Index 377