Prevalence of tool behaviour is associated with pelage phenotype in intraspecific hybrid long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis aurea × M. f. fascicularis)

• Main Authors: Gumert, Michael David, Tan, Amanda Wei Yi, Luncz, Lydia V., Chua, Constance Ting, Kulik, Lars, Switzer, Adam D., Haslam, Michael, Iriki, Atsushi, Malaivijitnond, Suchinda
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Tool Behaviour; Social sciences::Psychology; Long-tailed Macaque
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/105363; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/49527; http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1568539X-00003557
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Stone-hammering behaviour customarily occurs in Burmese long-tailed macaques, Macaca fascicularis aurea, and in some Burmese-common longtail hybrids, M. f. aurea × M. f. fascicularis; however, it is not observed in common longtails. Facial pelage discriminates these subspecies, and hybrids express v...