Friends in high places: Interspecific grooming between chimpanzees and primate prey species in Budongo Forest.

ABSTRACT: While cases of interspecies grooming have been reported in primates, no comprehensive cross-site review has been published about this behavior in great apes. Only a few recorded observations of interspecies grooming events between chimpanzees and other primate species have been reported in the wild, all of which have thus far been in Uganda. Here, we review all interspecies grooming events recorded for the Sonso community chimpanzees in Budongo Forest Reserve, Uganda, adding five new observations to the single, previously reported event from this community. A new case of interspecies play involving three juvenile male chimpanzees and a red-tailed monkey is also detailed. All events took place between 1993 and 2021. In all of the six interspecific grooming events from Budongo, the 'groomer'

SUBMITTER: Freymann E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9930027 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature