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Juliane Bräuer¹, Josep Call

¹Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.

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|September 20, 2014

Summary

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Great apes, including chimpanzees, orangutans, and bonobos, demonstrate future planning by creating tools when needed. Their planning skills are flexible, though they produced fewer tools in advance than required in some situations.

Keywords:

future planning mental time travel primates tool use

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Area of Science:

Cognitive ethology
Primate behavior
Comparative psychology

Background:

Growing evidence suggests some animal species exhibit future planning capabilities.
Great apes are known to save and exchange tools for later use, indicating foresight.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate whether chimpanzees, orangutans, and bonobos can produce tools for future use.
To assess the flexibility of planning skills in apes under varying tool-dependency conditions.

Main Methods:

Apes were presented with a baited apparatus requiring a specific number of tools (zero, one, or eight) for reward retrieval.
Tool production in advance was observed and analyzed across different conditions.
Tool use during the reward retrieval phase was also recorded.

Main Results:

Apes successfully prepared tools in advance, primarily when tools were necessary for obtaining rewards.
Tool preparation occurred mainly in conditions requiring one or eight tools.
While apes prepared fewer than two tools in advance when eight were needed, they compensated by producing more during the task, securing most rewards.

Conclusions:

The ability of apes to solve this novel task highlights their flexible planning skills.
Increased pressure to prepare tools in advance did not significantly alter their overall performance.
Apes demonstrate a capacity for future planning, adapting their tool-making strategies based on situational demands.