Chimp Meat Market (trading meat for 'company')

[Ed Mahmoud]

Chimpanzees exchange meat for sex

Male chimps that are willing to share the proceeds of their hunting expeditions mate twice as often as their more selfish counterparts.

This is a long-term exchange, so males continue to share their catch with females when they are not fertile, copulating with them when they are.

The team describe their findings in the journal PLoS One.

[coriolis]

That quid pro quo must have carried up the evolutionary ladder to humans as well.

[Ed Mahmoud]

That quid pro quo must have carried up the evolutionary ladder to humans as well.

Dinner and a movie...