ArticleRoyal Society open science2022
Flexibility in the social structure of male chimpanzees (
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- Selectivity in Buttress Drumming Tree Properties Among Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) of the Waibira Community in Budongo Forest, Uganda.American journal of primatology · 2025Article
- Group structure and individual relationships of sanctuary-living Grauer's gorillas (Gorilla beringei graueri).PloS one · 2024Article
- Pharmacological and behavioral investigation of putative self-medicative plants in Budongo chimpanzee diets.PloS one · 2024Article
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- Dialects in leaf-clipping and other leaf-modifying gestures between neighbouring communities of East African chimpanzees.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Flexibility in the social structure of male chimpanzees (Royal Society open science · 2022Article
- Dead-infant carrying by chimpanzee mothers in the Budongo Forest.Primates; journal of primatology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Individuals of social species experience competitive costs and social benefits of group living. Substantial flexibility in humans' social structure and the combination of different types of social structure with fission-fusion dynamics allow us to live in extremely large groups-overcoming some of the costs of group living while capitalizing on the benefits. Non-human species also show a range of social strategies to deal with this trade-off. Chimpanzees are an archetypical fission-fusion species, using dynamic changes in day-to-day association to moderate the costs of within-group competition. Using 4 years of association data from two neighbouring communities of East African chimpanzees (
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