%0 Journal Article %A Kalan, Ammie K. %A Boesch, Christophe %+ Chimpanzees, Department of Primatology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society Great Ape Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation, Department of Primatology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society The Leipzig School of Human Origins (IMPRS), Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society Chimpanzees, Department of Primatology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society Great Ape Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation, Department of Primatology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society %T Audience effects in chimpanzee food calls and their potential for recruiting others : %G eng %U https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0028-337A-1 %R 10.1007/s00265-015-1982-1 %7 2015-08-15 %D 2015 %* Review method: peer-reviewed %X One proposed benefit for the seemingly costly behaviour of food calling is the recruitment of social allies and mates by the signaller. In chimpanzees, food calls are only produced for approximately half of all feeding events. Therefore, we investigated the influence of social and ecological context on the probability of making a food call upon arriving to a food patch in a group of wild chimpanzees. First, we tested whether feeding events where food calls had been uttered did in fact attract more individuals to join the caller. Secondly, we examined the influence of two sources of audience effects: those who were physically present with the caller and those who were presumed nearby but out of sight, and thirdly the effect of various ecological factors. We found that when feeding on fruit species, events where food calls had been produced had a higher probability of group mates arriving, even whilst controlling for the effect of pant hoots. Furthermore, the probability of uttering a food call was motivated by social more than ecological context. Specifically, high-ranking males were more likely to make food calls when estrous females were nearby, while low-ranking males and females generally called more when more females were nearby, irrespective of their reproductive state. These effects were independent of the increase in food call probability when male callers were accompanied by more males. Our findings support the recruitment function of food calls and suggest that high-ranking males call to attract estrous females to food patches to obtain mating opportunities. %K Audience effects, Male signalling, Pan troglodytes, Primate communication, Reciprocal altruism, Recruitment call %J Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology %V 69 %N 10 %& 1701 %P 1701 - 1712 %I Springer-Verlag Heidelberg %C Heidelberg %@ 0340-5443