Simone Pika and Claudio Tennie spent three weeks at Ozouga to study nut-cracking behaviour in the Rekambo chimpanzees and implications for chimpanzee and human culture...

Prof. Simone Pika

12/2025

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Simone Pika and Claudio Tennie, University of Tübingen, Germany spent three weeks in 12-2025-01-2026  at Ozouga to study nut-cracking behaviour in the Rekambo chimpanzees and implications for chimpanzee and human culture. This reserach trip is part of a grant supported by The Leakey Foundation titled "Can wild chimpanzees innovate nut cracking independently? Combining experimental and behavioral observations.

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