Reactions to Camera Traps by Wild Great Apes/ Curr. Biol., Mar. 14, 2019 (Vol. 29, Issue 7)

Kalan et al. investigate the novelty responses of wild and naive chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas to camera-trap devices. They report that bonobo and gorilla groups showed stronger impulses to look at camera traps compared to chimpanzees, and bonobos often reacted with fearful behaviors. Young apes generally stared for longer at camera traps relative to adults, while apes living near research sites or those that were in a bigger group stared less. The authors suggest that both intrinsic species difference and natural environmental factors affect curiosity and neophobia in the wild.

Check out the paper at http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(19)30163-0.

A.K. Kalan, G. Hohmann, M. Arandjelovic, C. Boesch, M.S. McCarthy, A. Agbor, S. Angedakin, E. Bailey, C.W. Belongelwa, M. Bessone, et al. (2019). Novelty Response of Wild African Apes to Camera Traps. Curr. Biol. 29.

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