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article_snippet.sent: Males, however, often interacted with neighbouring individuals.
article_snippet.sent: This behaviour appears to be widespread and was likely present in the ancestor of modern primates and humans.
article_snippet.sent: Chimpanzees bash out distinctive drum solos on the roots of trees as a form of 'signature' and to tell others in Chimpanzees group where Chimpanzees are.
article_snippet.sent: Biologists studying the primates have found over the years that male chimps grip the buttresses of tree roots with male chimps hands and beat male chimps with male chimps feet.
article_snippet.sent: But now one group of scientists studying the animal in the Sonso Community in the Budongo Forest in Uganda, have found that this drumming contains distinctive rhythmic patterns that can be used to identify a specific individual.
article_snippet.sent: Each male used a different number of beats and used a style of doublets and pauses that was distinct to Each male.
article_snippet.sent: The researchers also discovered that the chimps tended to use drumming far more often when The researchers was travelling.