Chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes, feeding on figs in Taļ Forest, Ivory Coast. Picture: Martyn Colbeck.
Chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes, feeding on figs in Taļ Forest, Ivory Coast. Picture: Martyn Colbeck. Exploring the minds of our primate cousins in the wild, using under-exploited observations of their travel paths A large set of observations of the travel paths of wild primates provides new opportunities for in-depth insights in the evolution of the mental abilities that primates, including ourselves, use to know where and when to travel in the most efficient way. An international team of researchers lead by the University of Amsterdam has now published the results of this global survey in the scientific journal iScience. Imagine looking down on a huge outdoor market from high in the sky, perhaps from a drone hovering quietly above. The people below move in different ways. Some wander in an aimless, haphazard way among the stalls, others take bee-line routes across the market.
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