Files in this item
Variation in hunting behaviour in neighbouring chimpanzee communities in the Budongo forest, Uganda
Item metadata
dc.contributor.author | Hobaiter, Catherine | |
dc.contributor.author | Samuni, Liran | |
dc.contributor.author | Mullins, Caroline | |
dc.contributor.author | Akankwasa, Walter John | |
dc.contributor.author | Zuberbühler, Klaus | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-06-22T11:30:08Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-06-22T11:30:08Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-06-21 | |
dc.identifier | 250006019 | |
dc.identifier | 25d9900f-b9bf-4937-a171-28739aea7a1d | |
dc.identifier | 85021148549 | |
dc.identifier | 000404118300008 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Hobaiter , C , Samuni , L , Mullins , C , Akankwasa , W J & Zuberbühler , K 2017 , ' Variation in hunting behaviour in neighbouring chimpanzee communities in the Budongo forest, Uganda ' , PLoS One , vol. 12 , no. 6 , e0178065 . https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0178065 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1932-6203 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0002-3893-0524/work/46125073 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0001-8378-088X/work/64360764 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/11057 | |
dc.description | This research was funded by the Leverhulme Trust Research Leadership Award F/00268/AP (http://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/) and the British Academy grant SG411998 (http://www.brit.ac.uk). An additional data set with all remaining data are now available at https://figshare.com/articles/DATA_hunting_xlsx/5004071 | en |
dc.description.abstract | Hunting and sharing of meat is seen across all chimpanzee sites, with variation in prey preferences, hunting techniques, frequencies, and success rates. Here, we compared hunting and meat-eating behaviour in two adjacent chimpanzee communities (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) of Budongo Forest, Uganda: the Waibira and Sonso communities. We observed consistent between-group differences in prey-species preferences and in post-hunting behaviour. Sonso chimpanzees show a strong prey preference for Guereza colobus monkeys (Colobus guereza occidentalis; 74.9% hunts), and hunt regularly (1–2 times a month) but with large year-to-year and month-to-month variation. Waibira chimpanzee prey preferences are distributed across primate and duiker species, and resemble those described in an early study of Sonso hunting. Waibira chimpanzees (which include ex-Sonso immigrants) have been observed to feed on red duiker (Cephalophus natalensis; 25%, 9/36 hunts), a species Sonso has never been recorded to feed on (18 years data, 27 years observations), despite no apparent differences in prey distribution; and show less rank-related harassment of meat possessors. We discuss the two most likely and probably interrelated explanations for the observed intergroup variation in chimpanzee hunting behaviour, that is, long-term disruption of complex group-level behaviour due to human presence and possible socially transmitted differences in prey preferences. | |
dc.format.extent | 17 | |
dc.format.extent | 877128 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | PLoS One | en |
dc.subject | Pan troglodytes | en |
dc.subject | Meat sharing | en |
dc.subject | Monopolization | en |
dc.subject | Hunting | en |
dc.subject | Food preference | en |
dc.subject | Social learning | en |
dc.subject | Tradition | en |
dc.subject | Animal culture | en |
dc.subject | Conformity | en |
dc.subject | Habituation | en |
dc.subject | BF Psychology | en |
dc.subject | DAS | en |
dc.subject.lcc | BF | en |
dc.title | Variation in hunting behaviour in neighbouring chimpanzee communities in the Budongo forest, Uganda | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.sponsor | The Leverhulme Trust | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Psychology and Neuroscience | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolution | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0178065 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.identifier.url | http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0178065#sec021 | en |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | F/00 268/AP | en |
This item appears in the following Collection(s)
Items in the St Andrews Research Repository are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.