ArticleRoyal Society open science2017
Avoidance of biological contaminants through sight, smell and touch in chimpanzees.
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- Human emotional evaluation of ancestral and modern threats: fear, disgust, and anger.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Evolution and Ecology of Parasite Avoidance.Annual review of ecology, evolution, and systematics · 2022Article
- The evolution of the human healthcare system and implications for understanding our responses to COVID-19.Evolution, medicine, and public health · 2022Review
- Zootherapeutic uses of animals excreta: the case of elephant dung and urine use in Sayaboury province, Laos.Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine · 2021Article
- Pathogens, odors, and disgust in rodents.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2020Review
- Divergent strategies in faeces avoidance between two cercopithecoid primates.Royal Society open science · 2020Article
- Hygienic personalities in wild grey mouse lemurs vary adaptively with sex.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Group and kin recognition via olfactory cues in chimpanzees (Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2018Article
- The role of social cognition in parasite and pathogen avoidance.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Review
- Consumption, contact and copulation: how pathogens have shaped human psychological adaptations.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Review
- Feeding decisions under contamination risk in bonobos.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Article
- Evolution of pathogen and parasite avoidance behaviours.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Article
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Avoiding biological contaminants is a well-known manifestation of the adaptive system of disgust. In theory, animals evolved with such a system to prevent pathogen and parasite infection. Bodily products are human-universal disgust elicitors, but whether they also elicit avoidance behaviour in non-human primates has yet to be tested. Here, we report experimental evidence that potential exposure to biological contaminants (faeces, blood, semen), as perceived via multiple sensory modalities (visual, olfactory, tactile), might influence feeding decisions in chimpanzees (
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