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Dr Kathelijne Koops is a biological anthropologist who conducts research into the influence of environmental, social and cognitive factors on the development of tool use in African great apes. She lead the research that revealed that chimpanzees catch and eat crabs and that chimpanzees will search for the correct tools from a particular species of plant in order to "ant dip" (a technique the chimps use to help them consume an army of ants without getting bitten).

Education
Firstly, Dr. Kathelijne Koops studied Biology at Utrecht University in the Netherlands and then went on to attend the University of Cambridge, where she completed her Ph.D. in 2011. Subsequently, she was a Junior Research Fellow at Homerton College until 2014. At this time, she took up a Post-doctoral position at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. She spent a year as a Visiting Post-doctoral Researcher in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University in the USA (2015-2016) and she is a collaborator in the Leading Graduate Program in Primatology and Wildlife Science at Kyoto University in Japan.

Publications
Her most popular publication is a study on whether Lethal aggression in Pan is better explained by adaptive strategies than human impacts.

Some of her other popular publications are the following:


 * Crab-fishing by chimpanzees in the Nimba Mountains, Guinea
 * Tool use is 'innate' in chimpanzees but not bonobos, their closest evolutionary relative
 * Why do wild bonobos not use tools like chimpanzees do?
 * Chimpanzees prey on army ants at Seringbara, Nimba Mountains, Guinea: Predation patterns and tool use characteristics