Chimpanzees Share Forbidden Fruit
Kimberley J. Hockings, Tatyana Humle, James R. Anderson et al. · 2007
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Kimberley Hockings, Tatyana Humle, James Anderson and colleagues reported chimpanzees regularly sharing plant food, in PLOS ONE in 2007. Wild chimpanzees rarely share plant foods with each other. Meat from hunts is shared often, and it works as a social tool for building bonds and alliances.
Against that background, steady sharing of a prized plant food stands out. The authors call it forbidden fruit, picked where taking it carried some risk. Sharing it may have bought social rewards worth that risk. The report adds a plant based case to a debate that has mostly been about meat, status and friendship among apes.
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| CREATOR | Kimberley J. Hockings, Tatyana Humle, James R. Anderson et al. |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2007 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 19 KB |
| LICENSE | Creative Commons Attribution License |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | PLOS ONE |
Source: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0000886