1. Social Hunting As A Means Of Ensuring Reproductive Success
Chimpanzees live long lives and reproduce slowly, with high infant and juvenile mortality rates. Thus, the probability is low that females will give birth successively to sons who will reach adulthood together. ... Although females occasionally do hunt, adult and adolescent males make over ninety percent of the kills. ... Food sharing does not traditionally occur between males and related females, as the males tend to share meat with male allies and unrelated adult females (Boyd & Silk, 2003). ... This tactic directly increases the proportion of unrelated estrous females to males. ...
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