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Daniela Hedwig

Researcher at Cornell University

Publications -  27
Citations -  996

Daniela Hedwig is an academic researcher from Cornell University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gorilla & Population. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 26 publications receiving 788 citations. Previous affiliations of Daniela Hedwig include The Aspinall Foundation & Max Planck Society.

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Environmental variability supports chimpanzee behavioural diversity.

Ammie K. Kalan, +74 more
TL;DR: It is shown that chimpanzees exhibit greater behavioural diversity in environments with more variability — in both recent and historical timescales, suggesting that environmental variability was a critical evolutionary force promoting the behavioural, as well as cultural diversification of great apes.
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Chimpanzee accumulative stone throwing

Hjalmar S. Kühl, +82 more
- 29 Feb 2016 - 
TL;DR: The ritualized behavioural display and collection of artefacts at particular locations observed in chimpanzee accumulative stone throwing may have implications for the inferences that can be drawn from archaeological stone assemblages and the origins of ritual sites.
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Human impact erodes chimpanzee behavioral diversity

Hjalmar S. Kühl, +81 more
- 29 Mar 2019 - 
TL;DR: The results support the view that “culturally significant units” should be integrated into wildlife conservation and show that chimpanzees inhabiting areas with high human impact have a mean probability of occurrence reduced by 88%, across all behaviors, compared to low-impact areas.
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Behavioral variation in gorillas: Evidence of potential cultural traits

TL;DR: The ‘method of exclusion’ is applied to look for the presence/absence of behaviors that could be considered potential cultural traits in well-habituated groups from five study sites of the two species of gorillas, and a strong positive correlation between behavioral dissimilarity and geographic distance is found.
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An experimental study of nettle feeding in captive gorillas

TL;DR: This paper showed that gorillas feed on the stinging nettle Laportea alatipes by means of elaborate processing skills and showed that individual gorillas acquire these skills through genetic predisposition and individual learning of plant affordances.