Male chimpanzees form enduring and equitable social bonds

Mitani, John C.

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Male chimpanzees form enduring and equitable social bonds

Mitani, John C.·2009·Animal Behaviour

DOI 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.11.021

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Other social mammals form cooperative relationships between unrelated adults that can last over months or years.
“Recent studies show that, in addition to humans, other social mammals form cooperative relationships between unrelated adults, which can last over months or years (chimpanzees [7], baboons [8,9] and feral horses [10]).”
From Food sharing is linked to urinary oxytocin levels and bonding in related and unrelated wild chimpanzees (2014) · cites this paper as [7]
Links between food sharing and long-term benefits have been described on a behavioural level for chimpanzees reciprocally sharing meat, exchanging meat for sex, or exchanging meat for agonistic support.
“Such links between food sharing and long-term benefits have been described on a behavioural level for chimpanzees reciprocally sharing meat [7,78], and exchanging meat for sex [50] or agonistic support [54].”
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Food sharing in chimpanzees is non-random, being more likely within dyads that engage in high rates of other cooperative behaviours.
“Its occurrence is non-random, given that food sharing is more likely within dyads that engage in high rates of other cooperative behaviours [7,15,52,78].”
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Authors: Mitani, J. C.
Affiliations: University of Michigan (US)
Corresponding author: Mitani, John C.
ORCID: Mitani, John C.
Venue: Animal Behaviour
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2009-03
Volume: 77
Issue: 3
Pages: 633-640
ISSN: 0003-3472 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.11.021
OpenAlex: W2003491421
Cited by: 447
References: 64
Citations by year: 2026: 22 · 2025: 21 · 2024: 20 · 2023: 58 · 2022: 22 · 2021: 30 · 2020: 24 · 2019: 30 · 2018: 37 · 2017: 21 · 2016: 26 · 2015: 25 · 2014: 30 · 2013: 27 · 2012: 23
FWCI: 23.50
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations: Animal Behaviour (publishedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Primate Behavior and Ecology
Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Animal Behavior and Reproduction
Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
Keywords: chimpanzees, grooming, kinship, dominance rank, relationship quality

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