The nature of prosociality in chimpanzees

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Tennie, Claudio ^a   Jensen, Keith ^b   Call, Josep ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOOD; PRIMATE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

BEHAVIOR; CHIMPANZEE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; RECIPIENT; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; COOPERATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MOTIVATION; PAN TROGLODYTES; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

PAN; PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; PAN TROGLODYTES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 85007000725     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13915     Document Type: Article

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