2 documents found, page 1 of 1
Inter-community behavioural variation confirmed through indirect methods in fou...
Bessa, Joana; Biro, Dora; Hockings, KimberleyUIDB/04038/2020 UIDP/04038/2020; Culture, while long viewed as exclusively human, has now been demonstrated across diverse taxa and contexts. However, most animal culture data are constrained to well-studied, habituated groups. This is the case for chimpanzees, arguably the most ‘cultural’ non-human species. While much progress has been made charting wild chimpanzees' cultural repertoire, large gaps remain in o...
Chimpanzees share forbidden fruit
Hockings, Kimberley J.; Humle, Tatyana; Anderson, James R.; Biro, Dora; Sousa, Claudia; Ohashi, Gaku; Matsuzawa, TetsuroThe sharing of wild plant foods is infrequent in chimpanzees, but in chimpanzee communities that engage in hunting, meat is frequently used as a 'social tool' for nurturing alliances and social bonds. Here we report the only recorded example of regular sharing of plant foods by unrelated, non-provisioned wild chimpanzees, and the contexts in which these sharing behaviours occur. From direct observations, adult ...