Why do chimpanzees hunt and share meat

By John C. Mitani, David P Watts. 2001

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Social Psychology

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Correlates of territorial boundary patrol behaviour in wild chimpanzees (2005, background): “The Ngogo chimpanzees frequently hunt vertebrate prey (Mitani & Watts 2001; Watts & Mitani 2002), and we noted these hunting attempts ad libitum during following episodes.”
Influence of Ecological and Social Factors on Body Mass of Wild Chimpanzees (2005, background): “One hypothesis to explain variability in hunting behavior is nutrient shortfall in which hunting is more frequent during periods of low food availability (Mitani and Watts, 2001).”
Economic Profitability of Social Predation Among Wild Chimpanzees: Individual Variation Promotes Cooperation (2008, background): “Chimpanzee communities in different study sites often contain at least one male informally described as having a particularly high hunting rate (Gombe: Frodo: Stanford 1998; Gilby 2004; Ngogo: Monk: Watts & Mitani 2002b; Ta€ı: Snoopy: Boesch & Boesch 1989; Brutus: Boesch & Boesch-Achermann 2000).”
The influence of kin relationship and reciprocal context on chimpanzees' other-regarding preferences (2010, neutral): “…reciprocal correlations in giving and receiving commodities and services, such as food, grooming, agonistic support and mating (de Waal 1997; Mitani & Watts 2001; Koyama et al. 2006; Duffy et al. 2007; Hockings et al. 2007; but see also criticisms: Hammerstein 2003; Stevens 2004; Stevens &…”
Association patterns among wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) reflect sex differences in cooperation (2008, positive): “), although there is debate over the degree to which this is cooperative (Boesch 1994; Mitani and Watts 2001; Boesch 2002; Gilby et al. 2006, 2008).”
Two Key Steps in the Evolution of Human Cooperation (2012, background): “Although there is some favoritism in “meat sharing” toward coalitionary partners (Mitani and Watts 2001), the most important factor in noncaptors’ obtaining of meat is, not surprisingly, dominance (Boesch 1994).”
Reply to comments. Two Key Steps in the Evolution of Human Cooperation: The Interdependence Hypothesis (2012, background): “Mutualism explains the majority of non-kin cooperation in the animal kingdom (Dugatkin 1997); therefore, it is critical to understand its role in the development of the uniquely high levels of cooperation in humans.”
The ontogeny of human prosociality: behavioral experiments with children aged 3 to 8 (2012, background): “…groups (Watts & Mitani, 2001), hunting small prey collaboratively (Boesch & Boesch, 1989) and sharing meat and other foods (Nishida & Turner, 1996; Mitani & Watts, 2001; Gilby, 2006), exchanging grooming for other valuable resources (de Waal, 1997b; Mitani, 2006, 2009), and cooperatively guarding…”
Production of food-associated calls in wild male chimpanzees is dependent on the composition of the audience (2010, positive): “Although the evidence for reciprocal interchange of different services in chimpanzees is mixed (Gomes and Boesch 2009; Gilby 2006; Mitani and Watts 2001; Schino and Aureli 2009), it is possible that food call production may be a ‘currency’ that is exchanged amongst individuals for other services.”