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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Main Authors: Hockings, Kimberley J., Humle, Tatyana, Anderson, James R., Biro, Dora, Sousa, Claudia, Ohashi, Gaku, Matsuzawa, Tetsuro
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2007
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1964537/