ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2018
Chimpanzees and death.
Review in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 41 citations in OpenAlex.
- The First Evidence of Intermittent Rectal Prolapse in a Wild Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes).Journal of medical primatology · 2026Article
- On the nature of grief: uncovering the evolutionary roots of loss across the animal realm.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2026Review
- Unveiling animal death cognition: the role of social systems.Science China. Life sciences · 2026Article
- Chimpanzee locomotor risk-taking points to the importance of parental and alloparental supervision in humans.iScience · 2026Article
- Severe Generalized Tetanus in a Chimpanzee (Veterinary sciences · 2025Article
- Responses to dying and dead adult companions in a free-ranging, provisioned group of Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata).Primates; journal of primatology · 2025Article
- Enucleation Due to Ocular Abscess in a Captive Chimpanzee (Veterinary sciences · 2025Article
- Avoidance of reproductive conflict and the evolution of menopause in chimpanzees.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Commemorating the monkey bars, catalyst of debate at the intersection of human evolutionary biology and public health.Evolution, medicine, and public health · 2024Review
- Behavioral responses of wild chimpanzees toward a juvenile that suddenly lost its animacy due to a fall accident.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- How Sanctuary Chimpanzees (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Good case studies reveal something important.Primates; journal of primatology · 2022Article
- Dead-infant carrying by chimpanzee mothers in the Budongo Forest.Primates; journal of primatology · 2022Article
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- A 25-Year Retrospective Review of Mortality in Chimpanzees (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Staring death in the face: chimpanzees' attention towards conspecific skulls and the implications of a face module guiding their behaviour.Royal Society open science · 2022Article
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- Why chimpanzees carry dead infants: an empirical assessment of existing hypotheses.Royal Society open science · 2020Article
- Primate thanatology and hominoid mortuary archeology.Primates; journal of primatology · 2020Review
- Responses to dead and dying conspecifics and heterospecifics by wild mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii).Primates; journal of primatology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Information about responses to death in nonhuman primates is important for evolutionary thanatology. This paper reviews the major causes of death in chimpanzees, and how these apes respond to cues related to dying and death. Topics covered include disease, human activities, predation, accidents and intra-species aggression and cannibalism. Chimpanzees also kill and sometimes eat other species. It is argued that, given their cognitive abilities, their experiences of death in conspecifics and other species are likely to equip chimpanzees with an understanding of death as cessation of function and irreversible. Whether they might understand that death is inevitable-including their own death, and biological causes of death is also discussed. As well as gathering more fundamental information about responses to dying and death, researchers should pay attention to possible cultural variations in how great apes deal with death.This article is part of the theme issue 'Evolutionary thanatology: impacts of the dead on the living in humans and other animals'.
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