Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) strategically manipulate their environment to deny conspecifics access to food

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 14; no. 1; pp. 17579 - 13
• Main Authors: Kaufhold, Stephan P., Sánchez-Amaro, Alejandro, Tan, Jingzhi, Fernandez-Navarro, Sofia, Atencia, Rebeca, Rossano, Federico
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 30.07.2024; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 631/181/2469; 631/477; Animals; Behavior, Animal; Conspecifics; Feeding Behavior - physiology; Female; Food; Food sources; Humanities and Social Sciences; Male; Monkeys & apes; multidisciplinary; Pan troglodytes; Pan troglodytes - physiology; Pan troglodytes - psychology; Reinforcement; Reward; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Social Behavior

Humans modify their environment to grant or prevent others’ access to valuable resources, for example by using locks. We tested whether sanctuary-living chimpanzees (N = 10) would flexibly modify their environment to either allow or deny a dominant conspecific access to a shared food source by givin...