Tool-use behaviors and sex differences of Macaca fascicularis aurea.

• Main Author: Low, Kuan Hoong.
• Other Authors: Michael David Gumert
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Biological sciences::Zoology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/39453
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This present study uses a quasi-experiment and focal observations to investigate tools used by wild long-tailed macaques. The quasi-experiment was a tool choice paradigm where macaques selected between pre-measured tools to open food items. Results showed smaller tools were used more than larger too...