"Chimpanzee groups" refers to a collective of chimpanzees that live together and interact as a social unit.
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Their argument rests on examples in which one chimp learns from another, and on the seemingly arbitrary differences in habits between
chimpanzee groups at different sites.
This procedure was repeated with two
different chimpanzee groups (Group 1 and Group 2) such that chimpanzees in both groups observed a pair of trained group members performing each of the foraging behaviors.
A series of researchers, starting with Jane Goodall, have documented the murders
within chimpanzee groups and lethal raids conducted between groups.
A team of primatologists headed by Kevin Langergraber of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, pulled together behavioural data on nine
wild chimpanzee groups, and analysed DNA samples from 246 individual apes.
Together with Roman Wittig, I co-direct the Tai Chimpanzee Project, Tai National Park, Ivory Coast, which currently has three
habituated chimpanzee groups with a fourth under habituation, as well as one habituated sooty mangabey group.
Feldblum said that because of this type of society, «all members of the community are rarely together, so group size probably
limits chimpanzee group formation differently than it does in some other primate species.
These studies show that
various chimpanzee groups have gestural dialects and that chimpanzees use combinations of gestures to communicate with conspecifics.
«Scar's Army» looks into the struggles between the film's two
rival chimpanzee groups who share the same forest home.
But one day at around 11 am, a female member of
the chimpanzee group Nishie and his colleague were observing began to give birth in front of the 20 other group members.
The vast amount of video material reveals how the diversity of chimpanzee culture is still underestimated:
the chimpanzee groups exhibit a surprising variety of behavior, for example in food hunting or display, which is partly shaped by their environment.