Chimpanzees help conspecifics obtain food and non-food items

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1710, 2011, Pages 1405-1413

  Melis, Alicia P ^a   Warneken, Felix ^b   Jensen, Keith ^a,c   Schneider, Anna Claire ^a   Call, Josep ^a   Tomasello, Michael ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Helping; Pan troglodytes; Prosociality

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOOD; HELPING BEHAVIOR; HOMINID;

PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 79953320077     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1735     Document Type: Article

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