Slocombe, K.E. and Newton-Fisher, N.E. (2005) Fruit sharing between wild adult chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii): a socially significant event? American Journal of Primatology, 65 (4). pp. 385-391. ISSN 0275-2565.
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| Official URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajp.20123 |
Abstract
Food-sharing is a habitual aspect of chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) life, although sharing of plant foods between unrelated adults is rare. Observations of such behaviour have typically been interpreted as the outcome of a process by which individuals, unable to otherwise gain access to the food, manage to obtain a nutritional benefit. Here we present behavioural details and acoustic analysis from an observation of food sharing between unrelated adult wild chimpanzees that we suggest cannot be explained using traditional nutrition-based models. Instead we propose the exchange is only understandable as a socially important event and we cite two further observations from the same population that support this suggestion.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QH Natural history > QH541 Ecology Q Science > QL Zoology Q Science > QH Natural history > QH301 Biology G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology |
| Divisions: | Faculties > Social Sciences > School of Anthropology and Conservation > Biological Anthropology |
| Depositing User: | Nicholas E. Newton-Fisher |
| Date Deposited: | 26 May 2011 16:02 |
| Last Modified: | 26 May 2011 16:02 |
| Resource URI: | http://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/27822 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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