Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) strategically manipulate their environment to deny conspecifics access to food.
Journal
Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
30 Jul 2024
30 Jul 2024
Historique:
received:
07
05
2024
accepted:
22
07
2024
medline:
31
7
2024
pubmed:
31
7
2024
entrez:
30
7
2024
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Humans modify their environment to grant or prevent others' access to valuable resources, for example by using locks. We tested whether sanctuary-living chimpanzees (N = 10) would flexibly modify their environment to either allow or deny a dominant conspecific access to a shared food source by giving them the option to change a food reward's pathway prior to releasing it. The food could end up in one of two locations: one was accessible to both the subject and a dominant conspecific, the other one was only accessible to the subject. We further manipulated the extent of inhibitory control needed for modifying the pathway by varying the subjects' starting position. Our subjects reoriented the pathway competitively to monopolize food but changed the pathway less often in trials with high inhibitory demands. We further show how inhibitory task demands in a social context influence chimpanzees' future planning. Our results show that chimpanzees will strategically manipulate their environment to maximize their own and deny a dominant conspecific access to food.
Identifiants
pubmed: 39080416
doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-68159-3
pii: 10.1038/s41598-024-68159-3
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
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17579Subventions
Organisme : Academic Senate Grant UCSD
ID : RG096635
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© 2024. The Author(s).
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