The meat-scrap hypothesis: Small quantities of meat may promote cooperative hunting in wild chimpanzees Pan troglodytes

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 421-431

  Tennie, Claudio ^a,c   Gilby, Ian C ^b   Mundry, Roger ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MPI EVAN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes); Cooperation; Diet; Hunting; Macronutrients; Micronutrients

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD LIMITATION; GROUP SIZE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MEAT; NUMERICAL MODEL; OMNIVORY; PRIMATE; TRACE ELEMENT;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; GOMBE NATIONAL PARK; KIGOMA [TANZANIA]; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TANZANIA;

ANIMALIA; PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 60049098365     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-008-0676-3     Document Type: Article

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