Why do chimpanzees hunt? Considering the benefits and costs ofacquiring and consuming vertebrate versus invertebrate prey

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 71, Issue , 2014, Pages 38-45

  Tennie, Claudio ^a   O'Malley, Robert C ^b   Gilby, Ian C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Insectivory; Macronutrients; Meat scrap hypothesis; Micronutrients; Pan troglodytes; Predation

Indexed keywords

CONSPECIFIC; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HOMINID; INSECTIVORY; MEAT; PREDATION; PRIMATE;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATES; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL; DIET; FOOD CHAIN; INSECT; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION;

ANIMALS; DIET; FOOD CHAIN; INSECTS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84902290417     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2014.02.015     Document Type: Article

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