Habitual cave use and thermoregulation in chacma baboons (Papio hamadryas ursinus)
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Publication Date
2-1-2004
Publication Title
Journal of Human Evolution
Volume Number
46
Issue Number
2
Abstract
The willingness to utilise caves as shelters is held to have been important to early humans but dependent on pyrotechnology. Despite anecdotal evidence that non-human primates will also exploit caves there has as yet been no detailed account of such exploitation or of the reasons underlying it. Here we provide the first such data, on the frequency and patterning of the use of an underground cave system by baboons (Papio hamadryas)—and show that usage is determined, at least in part, by above-ground temperatures.
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Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2003.11.005
Recommended Citation
Barrett, L.; Gaynor, D.; Rendall, D.; and Mitchell, D., "Habitual cave use and thermoregulation in chacma baboons (Papio hamadryas ursinus)" (2004). KIP Articles. 7616.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/kip_articles/7616
