Journal article
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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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1371/journal.pone.0000886
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- 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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1932-6203
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1932-6203
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English
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pubs:210683
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uuid:2d813ea6-2e7e-4eb1-a3ec-f4da497a69d9
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pubs:210683
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210683
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- Hockings et al
- Copyright date:
- 2007
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- Copyright: © 2007 Hockings et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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