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Chimpanzees share forbidden fruit

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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-provisioned wild chimpanzees, and the contexts in which these sharing behaviours occur. From direct observations, adult chimpanzees at Bossou (Republic of Guinea, West Africa) very rarely transferred wil...

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Peer reviewed

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10.1371/journal.pone.0000886

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Zoology
Role:
Author
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
Journal:
PLoS ONE More from this journal
Volume:
2
Issue:
9
Pages:
ARTN e886
Publication date:
2007-09-12
Acceptance date:
2007-08-23
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EISSN:
1932-6203
ISSN:
1932-6203
Language:
English
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pubs:210683
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uuid:2d813ea6-2e7e-4eb1-a3ec-f4da497a69d9
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pubs:210683
Source identifiers:
210683
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2013-11-16

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