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Lukuru Foundation, Democratic Republic of Congo www.lukuru.org This phenomenal clip gives you insight into the Bili chimpanzees using tools, transporting tools, and tool culture transmission to the next generation in the Bili Project - the Bili-Uรฉrรฉ landscape. This camera trap footage was a result of a joint 1 year project by the Panafrican Research and Monitoring Program at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, The US Fish and Wildlife Service, and The Lukuru Foundation, with additional funding provided by The Lucie Burgers Foundation for Comparative Behavior Research, Arnhem, The Netherlands, The Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics at the University of Amsterdam, and The African Wildlife Foundation. Cleve Hicks led the survey mission and Karsten Dierks served as Panafrican Team Leader in charge of the camera trap project. They were accompanied by a team of six guards from L'Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature.
Eastern Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) Tool Use