ArticleCurrent biology : CB2019
Males with a mother living in their group have higher paternity success in bonobos but not chimpanzees.
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- Mothers stick together: how the death of an infant affects female social relationships in a group of wild bonobos (Pan paniscus).Primates; journal of primatology · 2022Article
- Thermal imaging reveals audience-dependent effects during cooperation and competition in wild chimpanzees.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Attractiveness of female sexual signaling predicts differences in female grouping patterns between bonobos and chimpanzees.Communications biology · 2021Article
- Female-directed aggression by adolescent male chimpanzees primarily constitutes dominance striving, not sexual coercion.American journal of physical anthropology · 2021Article
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- Urinary neopterin of wild chimpanzees indicates that cell-mediated immune activity varies by age, sex, and female reproductive status.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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- Two wild female bonobos adopted infants from a different social group at Wamba.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Group-level cooperation in chimpanzees is shaped by strong social ties.Nature communications · 2021Article
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Abstract
In many group-living mammals, mothers may increase the reproductive success of their daughters even after they are nutritionally independent and fully grown [1]. However, whether such maternal effects exist for adult sons is largely unknown. Here we show that males have higher paternity success when their mother is living in the group at the time of the offspring's conception in bonobos (N = 39 paternities from 4 groups) but not in chimpanzees (N = 263 paternities from 7 groups). These results are consistent with previous research showing a stronger role of mothers (and females more generally) in bonobo than chimpanzee societies.
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