%0 Journal Article
%A Fruth, Barbara
%A Hohmann, Gottfried
%+ External Organizations
Bonobos, Department of Primatology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
%T Food Sharing across borders: First observation of inter-community meat sharing by bonobos at LuiKotale, DRC : 
%G eng
%U https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0000-3372-6
%R 10.1007/s12110-018-9311-9
%7 2018-04-05
%D 2018
%* Review method: peer-reviewed
%X Evolutionary models consider hunting and food sharing to be milestones that paved the way from primate to human societies. Because fossil evidence is scarce, hominoid primates serve as referential models to assess our common ancestors’ capacity in terms of communal use of resources, food sharing, and other forms of cooperation. Whereas chimpanzees form male-male bonds exhibiting resource-defense polygyny with intolerance and aggression toward nonresidents, bonobos form male-female and female-female bonds resulting in relaxed relations with neighboring groups. Here we report the first known case of meat sharing between members of two bonobo communities, revealing a new dimension of social tolerance in this species. This observation testifies to the behavioral plasticity that exists in the two Pan species and contributes to scenarios concerning the traits of the last common ancestor of Pan and Homo. It also contributes to the discussion of physiological triggers of in-group/out-group behavior and allows reconsideration of the emergence of social norms in prehuman societies.
%K Food sharing Intercommunity encounters Bonobo Pan paniscus Human evolution 
%J Human Nature
%V 29
%N 2
%& 91
%P 91 - 103
%I Aldine de Gruyter
%C Hawthorne, N.Y.
%@ 1045-6767