Savanna chimpanzees use tools to harvest the underground storage organs of plants

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

• Publication date

  2007-12-04

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science, History

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  DOI 10.1073/pnas.0707929104PMID 18032604PMCID PMC2148269
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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