Attractiveness of female sexual signaling predicts differences in female grouping patterns between bonobos and chimpanzees

Surbeck and colleagues investigate the proximate drivers of female gregariousness in bonobos and chimpanzees across different observed communities. Their findings indicate that varied levels of sexual signalling in these two species result in different social behaviours regarding female grouping and...

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Main Authors: Martin Surbeck, Cédric Girard-Buttoz, Liran Samuni, Christophe Boesch, Barbara Fruth, Catherine Crockford, Roman M. Wittig, Gottfried Hohmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-09-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02641-w