Part of the blogosphere that normally I keep under my radar has been carrying a lively discussion about a new paper from the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London on domestic violence among chimpanzees in the wild. The paper is aptly titled, “Male coercion and the costs of promiscuous mating for female chimpanzees” but [...]
February 10, 2007
On chimpanzee impudence
I want to take some time off from all the upsetting ecology and primatology news, and change the pace and tone by sharing with you two rather enlightening cognition/behavior/evolutionary psychology publications that (will) appear in upcoming issues of Cognition and Journal of Comparative Psychology. Both these papers come from psychologists over at Max Planck Institute [...]