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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gibbons, Ann

Titel

Chimpanzee Gang Warfare

Ist Teil von

• Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), 2004-05, Vol.304 (5672), p.818-819

Ort / Verlag

Washington: The American Association for the Advancement of Science

Erscheinungsjahr

2004

Quelle

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Primatologists have long known that chimpanzees can be demonic--bands of males routinely head to the borders of their territory to seek, and sometimes destroy, foreign chimpanzees. But the reason behind these patrols, why males of the troop--who compete fiercely with one another most of the time--seem to cooperate while on patrol, is the mob mentality. Details of how these chimpanzees create a patrol and the behavior they exhibit within the patrol are discussed.