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Chimpanzees Share Forbidden Fruit
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The 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 chimpanzees at Bossou (Republic of Guinea, West Africa) very rarely transferred wild plant foods. In contrast, they shared cultivated plant foods much more frequently (58 out of 59 food sharing events). Sharing primarily consists of adult males allowing reproductively cycling females to take food that they possess. We propose that hypotheses focussing on 'food-for-sex and -grooming' and 'showing-off' strategies plausibly account for observed sharing behaviours. A changing human-dominated landscape presents chimpanzees with fresh challenges, and our observations suggest that crop-raiding provides adult male chimpanzees at Bossou with highly desirable food commodities that may be traded for other currencies.
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“Food sharing in chimpanzees, however, is not restricted to meat but has also been reported with non-meat foods, for example honey [52], or large fruits such as Carica papaya [57] or Treculia africana [52].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Hockings, K. J., Humle, T., Anderson, J. R., Biro, D., Sousa, C., Ohashi, G., & Matsuzawa, T.
- Affiliations
- University of Stirling (GB)
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Kyoto University (JP)
- Corresponding author
- Hockings, Kimberley J.
- Venue
- PLoS ONE
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science (PLoS)
- Published
- 2007-09-12
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- e886
- ISSN
- 1932-6203 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC1964537
- OpenAlex
- W2139162770
- Cited by
- 138
- References
- 28
- Citations by year
- 2025: 4 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 9 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 8 · 2014: 9 · 2013: 8 · 2012: 11
- FWCI
- 13.78
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- PLoS ONE (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Kent Academic Repository (University of Kent) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (#16002001)
- University of Stirling
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (16002001)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Keywords
- chimpanzees, food sharing, wild plant foods, crop raiding, social bonds, showing off, male-female interaction, Bossou, anthropogenic landscapes, primate social behavior
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Behavior, Animal, Pan troglodytes, Female, Male, Social Behavior
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