Chimpanzees Share Forbidden Fruit
The sharing of wild plant foods is infrequent in chimpanzees, but in chimpanzee communities that engage in hunting, meat is frequently used as a ‘social tool’ for nurturing alliances and social bonds. Here we report the only recorded example of regular sharing of plant foods by unrelated, non-provis...
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Format: | Online |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2007
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Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1964537/ |