Chimpanzees do not take advantage of very low cost opportunities to deliver food to unrelated group members

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1757-1770

  Vonk, Jennifer ^a,b   Brosnan, Sarah F ^c,d,e   Silk, Joan B ^f   Henrich, Joseph ^c,g   Richardson, Amanda S ^f   Lambeth, Susan P ^d   Schapiro, Steven J ^d   Povinelli, Daniel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^e GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

altruism; chimpanzee; other regarding preference; Pan troglodytes; prosocial behaviour

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOOD; GROUP BEHAVIOR; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; PRIMATE;

PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 42049115659     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.09.036     Document Type: Article

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