'Adoption' by maternal siblings in wild chimpanzees.

The adoption of unrelated orphaned infants is something chimpanzees and humans have in common. Providing parental care has fitness implications for both the adopter and orphan, and cases of adoption have thus been cited as evidence for a shared origin of an altruistic behaviour. We provide new data...

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Main Authors: Catherine Hobaiter, Anne Marijke Schel, Kevin Langergraber, Klaus Zuberbühler
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/6966f25545644acd8e10cbf91db79218
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