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Joint cooperative hunting among wild chimpanzees: Taking natural observations seriously

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2005

Christophe Boesch*
Affiliation:
Department of Primatology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 04103Leipzig, Germany

Abstract

Ignoring most published evidence on wild chimpanzees, Tomasello et al.'s claim that shared goals and intentions are uniquely human amounts to a faith statement. A brief survey of chimpanzee hunting tactics shows that group hunts are compatible with a shared goals and intentions hypothesis. The disdain of observational data in experimental psychology leads some to ignore the reality of animal cognitive achievements.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2005

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