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. 2023 Nov 23;70(5):682-684.
doi: 10.1093/cz/zoad052. eCollection 2024 Oct.

Captive chimpanzee shares food with baboons

Bin Yang  1 , James R Anderson  2 , Ni-Na Gou  1 , Kai-Feng Wang  1 , Bao-Guo Li  3
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Captive chimpanzee shares food with baboons

Bin Yang et al. Curr Zool. .
No abstract available

Keywords: baboons; chimpanzee; food sharing.

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The authors declare no competing interests.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Food sharing behavior of chimpanzee. (A) Chimpanzee gathers and carry weeds. (B) The chimpanzee tosses weeds.(C) Baboons get and eat weeds.
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