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

ABSTRACT: 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

SUBMITTER: Funkhouser JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11561109 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature