That still left 39 behaviour patterns that were common at some sites and absent from others.
Nor were behaviour patterns that did not appear to be sporadic (digging for termites, rather than using a stick to fish for them) classified as cultural.
If particular behaviour patterns can indeed be matched to particular genetic groups, pest managers will be able to use genetic fingerprinting to work out the best strategy to combat the rats on their patches.
The idea that these and some 30 other behaviour patterns are cultural rather than genetic was supported by the fact that particular sub-species (which differ from one another genetically) are not associated with particular behaviours.
Behaviour patterns found at all sites were deemed as likely to be genetic as cultural (leaf-sponging turned out to be in this category), as were those whose absence was due to some environmental factor (fishing algae out of ponds is impossible where there are no algae to fish).
The problem that confronted Dr Whiten and Dr Boesch was how to disentangle which of chimpanzees' many behaviour patterns are genetically instinctive, which are learnt by individuals in isolation (and so are not cultural, because not copied from others) and which are culturally transmitted (by animals copying one another).
Prof van Leeuwen posited that a preference for a particular style would be "a strong indication that this behaviour follows cultural patterns".
Lord Wigley, a co-sponsor of the amendment, said many serious offenders - such as stalkers and rapists - were able to get away with "ongoing, unacceptable" behaviour because courts only examined individual instances of their behaviour, and did not take into account the "cumulative impact" of long-term patterns of their behaviour on victims.
They therefore predict that patterns of behaviour which promote group exclusivity will be stronger in disease-ridden areas.
Each has its own rules of communication, or patterns of behaviour, and neither can be blamed, they say, when clashes occur.
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According to Mr Williamson, one lesson from organisational theory is the importance of identifying common patterns of behaviour in seemingly disparate situations.
Loopt, which is rumoured to be a potential takeover target of Facebook, has added software that automatically monitors its service for suspicious patterns of behaviour.
During the next few weeks men all over the planet will regress to traditional patterns of behaviour, slumping in front of their television sets, neglecting their household duties.
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If the perpetrators were suicide bombers, she said, then Israel might be able to provide some expertise because there were certain patterns of behaviour which suicide bombers followed.
The animals could have been disturbed or even partially deafened, but their mating and migrating activities may have been too important for them to change their patterns of behaviour.
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Mr Obasanjo must start to refashion not just the institutions of the state but the codes of practice and patterns of behaviour among the people at large that make civilised life possible.
Professor McGrew said the team was starting to see new patterns of chimpanzee behaviour emerging.
Bangladesh and the Philippines are recording much the same patterns of risky behaviour as the worst-affected countries.
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One theory is that the city is captured by its history, locked into multi-generational patterns of bad behaviour that get passed from parent to child.
All are traditional Democratic issues, but in concentrating on them Latinos are following the pattern of earlier immigrants: they are adopting middle-class American patterns of political behaviour, rather than putting their ethnic identity above everything else.
It may be that the predictive power of these technical patterns comes from the behaviour of individual investors.
It includes information on behaviour, habitat, reproduction and migration patterns, the introduction of new and invasive species.
Conocimientos del pueblo Mayangna sobre la convivencia del hombre y la naturaleza: peces y tortugas, demonstrates the depth and breadth of local knowledge of the natural milieu, including behaviour, habitat, reproduction and migration patterns, and the introduction of new and invasive species.
Collage also aims to mimic the traffic patterns of legitimate users, so that digital fingerprints which may suggest illicit behaviour are not produced.
So Dr Wildt's group is, for example, using a test-tube assay to measure hormone patterns in the faeces of endangered clouded leopards, and correlating these to behaviour under stress with a view to improving reproductive efficiency.
The KDDI system, is able to detect more complex behaviour by using analytical software - held on a server back at base - to match patterns of common movements.
"We have always seen a great deal of variability in UK extreme rainfall because our weather patterns are constantly changing, but this analysis suggests we are seeing a shift in our rainfall behaviour, " she said.
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