
Reading text: Cooperative foraging
A reading text about cooperative foraging in the animal kingdom and in our early ancestors
In this short video, we observe how chimpanzees seem to be unable to spontaneously coordinate their activities to get food – something that humans find very easy.

A reading text about cooperative foraging in the animal kingdom and in our early ancestors

In a series of experiments, anthropologists wanted to find out whether chimpanzees and bonobos work together and share a common source of food. Results tell us something about the role of social tolerance in cooperative foraging.