Testing kin altruism in long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) in a food-sharing experiment
@article{Schaub2007TestingKA, title={Testing kin altruism in long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) in a food-sharing experiment}, author={Hanspeter Schaub}, journal={International Journal of Primatology}, year={2007}, volume={17}, pages={445-467} }
Social grooming and coalition formation have been main foci in studies concerning altruism in monkeys. Results have been inconclusive because the altruistic nature of these behaviors remains unclear. I investigated altruism in a more transparent context via an apparatus in which captive long-tailed macaque females had the choice to exploit a food source themselves or to yield the food to a test partner. I hypothesized that if potential donors behaved altruistically toward kin, they would yield…
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