Non-reciprocal but peaceful fruit sharing in wild bonobos in Wamba

Behaviour

Volumn 152, Issue 3-4, 2015, Pages 335-357

  Yamamoto, Shinya ^a,b  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

begging for social bond; bonobo; courtesy food sharing; Pan paniscus; plant food sharing; prosocial behavior; reciprocity; sharing under pressure

Indexed keywords

PAN; PAN PANISCUS;

EID: 84923935721     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1568539X-00003257     Document Type: Article

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