Wild chimpanzees exchange meat for sex on a long-term basis.

Humans and chimpanzees are unusual among primates in that they frequently perform group hunts of mammalian prey and share meat with conspecifics. Especially interesting are cases in which males give meat to unrelated females. The meat-for-sex hypothesis aims at explaining these cases by proposing th...

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Main Authors: Cristina M Gomes, Christophe Boesch
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/448c00a32b1c44cba9f4d35196b8a399
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