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ArticleInternational journal of primatology2025

Genital Wounding in Chimpanzees (

Anthony P Massaro, Elizabeth V Lonsdorf, Dismas Mwacha, Melissa Emery Thompsom, Zarin Machanda, Jill Pruetz, Kathelijne Koops, Stefano Kaburu, Michael L Wilson

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Article in International journal of primatology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Anthony P MassaroDepartment of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA.
Elizabeth V LonsdorfDepartment of Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Dismas MwachaGombe Stream Research Centre, The Jane Goodall Institute-Tanzania, Kigoma, Tanzania.
Melissa Emery ThompsomDepartment of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
Zarin MachandaDepartment of Anthropology, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA.
Jill PruetzDepartment of Anthropology, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, USA.
Kathelijne KoopsApe Behaviour & Ecology Group, Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Stefano KaburuSchool of Animal Rural & Environmental Sciences, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK.
Michael L WilsonDepartment of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA.

Funding

Natural SIV Reservoirs and Human Zoonotic RiskR01AI050529 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI HAHN, BEATRICE H · 2001 to 2022
$6.1M
Studies of the precursor of the human AIDS virus in its natural chimpanzee hostR01AI120810 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI HAHN, BEATRICE H · 2016 to 2020
$3.4M
Cumulative Life Course Effects on Aging and Health in a Long-Lived Primate ModelR37AG049395 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO · PI Elizabeth Vinson Lonsdorf, Melissa Emery Thompson · 2022 to 2026
$3.2M
How Maternal Stress Influences Offspring Health & Development in Wild ChimpanzeesR00HD057992 · NICHD · GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI MURRAY, CARSON · 2011 to 2013
$726k
Novel frameworks for explaining unequal access to the health benefits of social ties: a longitudinal analysis in wild chimpanzeesR61AG078468 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO · PI MACHANDA, ZARIN, THOMPSON, MELISSA EMERY · 2022 to 2023
$611k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI050529NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI120810NIA NIH HHS R37 AG049395NIA NIH HHS R61 AG078468NICHD NIH HHS R00 HD057992
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Reports of primate violence frequently note wounds to the genital region, raising the possibility that attackers target genitals to eliminate the reproductive capacity of rivals. Alternatively, in chimpanzees (

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Contest competitionGenitalsReproductive successWounding

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PMID41919273
PMCPMC13035354

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