Chimpanzee helping in collaborative and noncollaborative contexts

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 873-880

  Greenberg, Julia R ^a   Hamann, Katharina ^a   Warneken, Felix ^b   Tomasello, Michael ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Altruism; Chimpanzee; Cooperation; Pan troglodytes; Solicitation

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; CONSPECIFIC; EUSOCIALITY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FOOD INTAKE; HOMINID; PRIMATE;

PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 77957804208     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.08.008     Document Type: Article

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