Every beast is special, some are just more special than others.

A Selection of Sources (sources for the compilation to Grant Steller’s Every Living Breathing moment found here: • Every Living Breathing Creature

Tools

Environmental variability supports chimpanzee behavioural diversity, 2020
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4146…

Identifying functional and regional differences in chimpanzee stone tool technology, 2022
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/do…

New evidence on the tool-assisted hunting exhibited by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in a savannah habitat at Fongoli, Sénégal
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/do…

Behavioral and cognitive perspectives on the evolution of tool use from wild chimpanzees
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science…

Planning abilities of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) in tool-using contexts
https://link.springer.com/article/10….

Active self-treatment of a facial wound with a biologically active plant by a male Sumatran orangutan
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159…

Religion/Ritual/Art/Music

Unearthing calfburialsamong Asian Elephants Elephas maximusLinnaeus, 1758 (Mammalia: Proboscidea: Elephantidae) innorthern Bengal, India
https://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/…

Chimpanzee drumming shows rhythmicity and subspecies variation
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/…

Dance displays in gibbons: Biological and linguistic perspectives on structured, intentional and rhythmic body movement
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.11…

Spontaneous (minimal) ritual in non-human great apes?
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/do…

The evolution of human artistic creativity
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles…

A group-specific arbitrary tradition in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24916…

Chimpanzees socially learn non-instrumental behaviour from conspecifics
https://brill.com/view/journals/beh/1…

Sex differences in chimpanzees’ use of sticks as play objects resemble those of children
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/…

Theory of Mind

Theory of mind in nonhuman primates
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journa…

Theory of mind in animals: Current and future directions
https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com…

What Cognitive Representations Support Primate Theory of Mind?
https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive…

Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind? 30 years later
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science….

Wild Chimpanzees Inform Ignorant Group Members of Danger
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science…

Great apes use self-experience to anticipate an agent’s action in a false-belief test
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas…

Time-space–displaced responses in the orangutan vocal system
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1…

Communication

A gestural repertoire of 1- to 2-year-old human children: in search of the ape gestures
https://link.springer.com/article/10….

Gelada vocal sequences follow Menzerath’s linguistic law
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas…

Campbell’s monkeys concatenate vocalizations into context-specific call sequences
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas…

Chimpanzee utterances refute purported missing links for novel vocalizations and syllabic speech
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159…

Vocal labeling of others by nonhuman primates
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s…

Extensive compositionality in the vocal system of bonobos
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s…

Intro: The Mind Electric by Miracle Musical
http://www.hawaiipartii.com/

Outro: Point Pleasant by Brock Berrigan
http://www.brockberrigan.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/39sPW…

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