Chimpanzees create social traditions
Wednesday, August 29, 2012 - 18:30
in Biology & Nature
This image shows a wrist-to-wrist grooming handclasp. A research collaboration between the Gonzaga University and the Max Planck Institute shows that the way in which chimpanzees groom each other depends on the community to which they belong. Specifically, it is the unique handclasp grooming behaviour that reveals this local difference.