Group-level cooperation in chimpanzees is shaped by strong social ties

Strong social bonds are known to affect pairwise cooperation in primates such chimpanzees. Here, Samuni et al. show that strong social bonds also influence participation in group-level cooperation (collective action in intergroup encounters) using a long-term dataset of wild chimpanzees.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Liran Samuni, Catherine Crockford, Roman M. Wittig
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20709-9