Jealous Behavior in Chimpanzees Elicited by Social Intruders.

ABSTRACT: Despite increasing interest in animal emotions, jealousy has rarely been directly addressed in comparative research, except for studies of human-pet interactions. Jealous behavior emerges when a valuable social bond is threatened by a third-party, prompting aggression or intervention attempts to direct the partner's attention away from the rival. Emotional reactions that protect relationships are expected in species in which social relationships are important for fitness, including primates. Previous primate studies have alluded to this ultimate function, but never explicitly tested predictions corresponding to a proximate jealousy mechanism. We demonstrate jealous behavior in a long-established colony of chimpanzees (N = 17) during a socially disruptive period due to group introduc

SUBMITTER: Webb CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9382973 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature