Baker, Sam A;
Stewart, Fiona A;
Piel, Alex K;
(2024)
A case of suspected chimpanzee scavenging in the Issa Valley, Tanzania.
Primates
, 65
pp. 41-48.
10.1007/s10329-023-01099-0.
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Abstract
Like humans, chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) are well known for their vertebrate and invertebrate hunting, but they rarely scavenge. In contrast, while hunting and meat consumption became increasingly important during the evolution of the genus Homo, scavenging meat and marrow from carcasses of large mammals was also likely to be an important component of their subsistence strategies. Here, we describe a confrontational scavenging interaction between an adult male chimpanzee from the Issa Valley and a crowned eagle (Stephanoaetus coronatus), which resulted in the chimpanzee capturing and consuming the carcass of a juvenile bushbuck (Tragelaphus scriptus). We describe the interaction and contextualize this with previous scavenging observations from chimpanzees.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | A case of suspected chimpanzee scavenging in the Issa Valley, Tanzania |
| Location: | Japan |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10329-023-01099-0 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-023-01099-0 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author-accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Meat eating, Carcass theft, Inter-specific competition Raptor, Hominin subsistence strategies, Hominin evolution |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Anthropology |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10181577 |
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