‘Impact hunters’ catalyse cooperative hunting in two wild chimpanzee communities

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1683, 2015, Pages

  Gilby, Ian C ^a   Machanda, Zarin P ^b   Mjungu, Deus C ^c   Rosen, Jeremiah ^b   Muller, Martin N ^d   Pusey, Anne E ^e   Wrangham, Richard W ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c The Jane Goodall Institute   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

By product mutualism; Chimpanzee; Collective action; Cooperation; Hunting; Predation

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE ACTION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; HOMINID; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; HUNTING; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; PREDATION; WILD POPULATION;

KANYAWARA; UGANDA;

COLOBUS SP.; PAN; PROCOLOBUS BADIUS;

ANIMAL; COLOBUS; COOPERATION; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; TANZANIA; UGANDA;

ANIMALS; COLOBUS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; TANZANIA; UGANDA;

EID: 84945314194     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0005     Document Type: Article

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