Parag Kadam

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.

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.

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.

TL;DR: A new study shows that chimpanzees possess a highly diverse culture of termite fishing that differs strongly among groups, with variation in community-specific combinations of elements parallels cultural diversity in human greeting norms or chopstick etiquette.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed a geographically comprehensive sample set amplified at microsatellite markers that inform recent population history and found that isolation by distance explains most of the range-wide genetic structure of chimpanzees.