Food transfer between mother and infant chimpanzees of the Mahale Mountains National Park, Tanzania

Nishida, Toshisada; Turner, Linda A.

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“…Thus, food begging and sharing may be uncommon in wild gibbons and would be expected only for foods in limited supply or difficult to obtain and/or manipulate. Wild chimpanzee infants were observed to solicit more often for difficult foods than for easy ones [7], and, in titi monkeys, food transfer mostly involved fruits which were too hard for the infant to manipulate or too large for him to pick [20].…”

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“…In Leontopithecus rosalia and Callithrix flaviceps food possessors gave 'food calls' which solicited immature group members to take the food [4,5]. Food transfer is also common in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) where mothers share food with their offspring, particularly when it is difficult for the young to obtain and manipulate the foods independently [6,7]. Male chimpanzees share food with each other [8], with females [1] and with infants; they are more likely to engage in the latter than are unrelated females [9].…”

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Observations on Food Sharing in Wild Lar Gibbons (Hylobates lar)

Nettelbeck

1998

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Observations on Food Sharing in Wild Lar Gibbons (Hylobates lar)

Nettelbeck

1998

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“…Reviews of food-transfer behavior can be found in Feistner and McGrew (1989) and Stevens and Gilby (2004). Although food transfer among chimpanzees is frequent between mothers and offspring (Nishida and Turner 1996), and among nonkin when meat is involved (Gomes and Boesch 2009), it is otherwise rare (McGrew 1975;Bethell et al 2000;Nakamura and Itoh 2001;Slocombe and Newton-Fisher 2005;Hockings et al 2007).…”

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Plant-food and tool transfer among savanna chimpanzees at Fongoli, Senegal

Pruetz

Lindshield

2011

Primates

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Transferring food is considered a defining characteristic of humans, as such behavior is relatively uncommon in other animal species save for kin-based transfer. Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) are one exception, as they commonly transfer meat among nonrelatives but rarely transfer other resources. New observations at Fongoli, Senegal, show habitual transfer of wild-plant foods and other non-meat resources among community members beyond transfers from mother to offspring. We explore various explanations for these behaviors with a focus on age- and sex-class patterns in transfer events. In a total of 27 of 41 cases, male chimpanzees at Fongoli transferred wild-plant foods or tools to females. Most other cases involved transfer among males or males taking food from females. In light of male-female transfer patterns at Fongoli, we examine four hypotheses that have been applied to food transfer in apes: (1) testing for male-coercive tendency (van Noordwijk and van Schaik, Behav Ecol Sociobiol 63:883-890, 2009), (2) costly signaling (Hockings et al. PLoS ONE 2:e886, 2007), (3) food-for-sex (Gomes and Boesch, PLoS ONE 4:5116, 2009), and (4) sharing-under-pressure (Gilby, Anim Behav 71:953-963, 2006). We also consider hypotheses posed to explain transfer among callitrichids, where such behavior is more common (Ruiz-Miranda et al. Am J Primatol 48:305-320, 1999). Finally, we examine variables such as patch and food size and food transport. We discuss our findings relative to general patterns of non-meat transfer in Pan and examine them in the context of chimpanzee sociality in particular. We then contrast chimpanzee species and subspecies in terms of non-meat food and tool transfer and address the possibility that a savanna environment contributes to the unusual pattern observed at Fongoli.

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“…The term food sharing is used for a wide range of behaviours; from feeding offspring to tolerated theft and actively giving among peers (Perry and Rose 1994;Nishida and Turner 1996;Mitani and Watts 2001). Food sharing between non-related adults of the same sex seems to defy evolutionary theory, because explanations like inclusive fitness or courtship feeding are not applicable.…”

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Food offering in jackdaws (Corvus monedula)

Kort

Emery

Clayton

2003

Naturwissenschaften

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Food sharing among unrelated same-sex individuals has received considerable interest from primatologists and evolutionary biologists because of its apparent altruistic nature and implications for the evolution of complex social cognition. In contrast to primates, food sharing in birds has received relatively little attention. Here we describe three types of food sharing in jackdaws, with the initiative for the transfer either with the receiver or the giver. The latter situation is of particular interest because the food transfer takes place through active giving. Compared to primates, jackdaws show high rates of food sharing. Finally we discuss the implications of food sharing in jackdaws, and in birds in general.

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Food transfer between mother and infant chimpanzees of the Mahale Mountains National Park, Tanzania

Cited by 71 publications

References 13 publications

Observations on Food Sharing in Wild Lar Gibbons (Hylobates lar)

Observations on Food Sharing in Wild Lar Gibbons (Hylobates lar)

Plant-food and tool transfer among savanna chimpanzees at Fongoli, Senegal

Food offering in jackdaws (Corvus monedula)

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