Long-term reciprocation of grooming in wild West African chimpanzees

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1657, 2009, Pages 699-706

  Gomes, Cristina M ^a   Mundry, Roger ^a   Boesch, Christophe ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chimpanzees; Grooming; Pan troglodytes verus; Reciprocity; Time frame; Time lag

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; GROOMING; HOMINID; RECIPROCITY; WILD POPULATION;

PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES VERUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 58249121621     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1324     Document Type: Article

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