Chimpanzees share food for many reasons: The role of kinship, reciprocity, social bonds and harassment on food transfers

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 941-947

  Silk, Joan B ^a,b   Brosnan, Sarah F ^c,d   Henrich, Joseph ^e   Lambeth, Susan P ^d   Shapiro, Steven ^d  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Altruism; Chimpanzee; Food sharing; Pan troglodytes; Prosociality; Reciprocity; Tolerated theft

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; EUSOCIALITY; HOMINID; KINSHIP; PHYLOGENETICS; RECIPROCITY; SOCIAL NETWORK;

PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATES;

EID: 84877586315     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.02.014     Document Type: Article

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