Joint cooperative hunting among wild chimpanzees: Taking natural observations seriously

By Christophe Boesch. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2005

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Chimpanzee helping in collaborative and noncollaborative contexts (2010, background): “But there is controversy about whether chimpanzees in these situations are really operating with a joint goal involving a mutual commitment that both receive their share of the spoils (e.g. see Boesch 2005; Tomasello et al. 2005).”
How joint is the joint attention of apes and human infants (2013, background): “…joint action are particularly strong, and thus similar sorts of challenges apply for researchers claiming to have found joint action in apes (e.g., Boesch, 2005; Pika & Zuberbühler, 2008): Is there evidence of a shared goal—that apes know together with the other individual(s) that they are…”
The gap is social: Human shared intentionality and culture (2010, background): “Boesch and colleagues (Boesch and Boesch 1989; Boesch and Boesch-Achermann 2000; Boesch 2005) have observed chimpanzees in the Taı̈ forest hunting in groups for arboreal prey, mainly monkeys.”
Human Culture in Evolutionary Perspective (2010, background): “In the account of Boesch (e.g., Boesch, 2005 ; Boesch & Boesch, 1989 ; Boesch & Boesch-Achermann, 2000 ), hunting chimpanzees have a common goal and take complementary roles in the hunt.”