Triadic social interactions operate across time: A field experiment with wild chimpanzees

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1779, 2014, Pages

  Wittig, Roman M ^a,b,c   Crockford, Catherine ^a,b,c   Langergraber, Kevin E ^b,d   Zuberbühler, Klaus ^a,c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^c BUDONGO CONSERVATION FIELD STATION   (Uganda)

^d USA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chimpanzee; Coalitions; Cognition; Playback experiment; Social memory; Third party knowledge

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FIELDWORK; FIGHTING; MEMORY; PRIMATE; WILD POPULATION;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHIMPANZEE; COALITIONS; COGNITION; CONFLICT; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; MEMORY; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY; PLAYBACK EXPERIMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL MEMORY; THIRD-PARTY KNOWLEDGE; TIME; VOCALIZATION;

CHIMPANZEE; COALITIONS; COGNITION; PLAYBACK EXPERIMENT; SOCIAL MEMORY; THIRD-PARTY KNOWLEDGE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; COGNITION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; MEMORY; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84902668710     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.3155     Document Type: Article

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