Selective social tolerance drives differentiated relationships among wild female chimpanzees

Fox, Stephanie A.; Muller, Martin N.; Camargo Peña, Natalia; Thompson González, Nicole; Machanda, Zarin; Otali, Emily; Wrangham, Richard; Emery Thompson, Melissa

doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2024.08.008

Animal Behaviour

2024

DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2024.08.008

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Selective social tolerance drives differentiated relationships among wild female chimpanzees

Stephanie A. Fox,

Martin N. Muller,

Natalia Camargo Peña

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Chimpanzees employ context-specific behavioral strategies within fission–fusion societies

Funkhouser,

Musgrave,

Morgan

et al. 2024

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Fission–fusion social systems allow individuals to make flexible choices about where, with whom, and in what contexts to spend their time in response to competing social and ecological pressures. The ability for fission–fusion societies to support individual behavioral strategies that vary across contexts has been suggested, but the potential function of such context-specific social choices remains largely understudied. We adopted the concept of social niche construction to explore possible differences in social complexity at the individual and group level across feeding contexts. Specifically, we examined patterns of co-attendance across two common ecological contexts in wild Central African chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) in the Goualougo Triangle, Republic of Congo. From data compiled over 6 years, we used multidimensional social network analysis to study the patterns of co-attendance generated from 436 group scans at Ficus and 4527 visits to termite mounds. These two contexts were chosen, because they are both fixed spatial features across the landscape that serve as well-defined points to compare association patterns. We identified context-specific social niche construction in a fission–fusion chimpanzee society that produce different patterns of relationships and social complexity that are consistent in their expression over many years, and offer functional benefits. While enhancing our understanding of chimpanzee behavioral strategies, culture, and conservation, our investigation also indicates that the social niche construction framework aids in elucidating the evolutionary advantages of fission–fusion sociality by accounting for intra- and interindividual variability, cognition, and choice in newfound ways.

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Chimpanzees employ context-specific behavioral strategies within fission–fusion societies

Funkhouser,

Musgrave,

Morgan

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Primates

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Selective social tolerance drives differentiated relationships among wild female chimpanzees

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Chimpanzees employ context-specific behavioral strategies within fission–fusion societies

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