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Female monopolizability promotes within-community killing in chimpanzees
2021-02-12
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Male chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) defend group territories and sometimes kill members of rival communities — a pattern often compared to human warfare1-3. Male chimpanzees also sometimes kill grown males from their own community4-9. Such within-community killings are puzzling, as they reduce the coalition strength needed to win inter-community contests5,10. Here we examine the contexts...
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- af5ff345-6ac4-568a-b3c3-1eb3e254a027
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-163673/v1