Food provisioning and stone handling tradition in Japanese macaques: a comparative study of ten troops

Of stones and monkeys: Testing ecologica

Of stones and monkeys: Testing ecological constraints on stone handling, a behavioral tradition in Japanese macaques

✍ Jean-Baptiste Leca; Noëlle Gunst; Michael A. Huffman 📂 Article 📅 2008 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 299 KB 👁 1 views

## Abstract Japanese macaques are known to manipulate stones by displaying various seemingly functionless behavioral patterns, including carrying a stone, rubbing two stones together, or gathering several stones into a pile. This form of solitary object play called stone handling (SH) is a behavior