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Ms. Attenberg and I did not drag our shared meat tower to Central Park.
Sex may not take place until some months or years later but once a male has shown a favour to a female she will remember it and is likely to mate with him, particularly if he has repeatedly groomed her and repeatedly shared meat.
After Frodo captured and killed his favorite food, 30-centimeter-long red colobus monkeys, Gilby noted whether he shared meat with females that sat next to him and begged.
In chimpanzees, for example, Cristina Gomes and Christophe Boesch have documented that the two most common reasons females choose to have sex with a male are if that male has shared meat with them in the past, or if they are high-ranking.
This analysis allowed us to investigate whether females copulated more frequently with males who shared meat with them than with males who never shared meat with them, irrespective of the amount shared.
Our findings show that females copulated more frequently with those males who shared meat with them over long periods of time.
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Males who share meat from a kill with the females will be the males favoured by those same females with mating opportunities.
Males also share meat with females, which researchers initially assumed to be a kind of courtship.
For male chimps, sharing meat with another male often wins him an ally when a fight breaks out.
He described in a last letter to his wife how the German soldiers on the Western Front became friendly with their enemies in the British trench just 20m (65ft) away, warning each other when officers were passing by and sharing meat and cigarettes.
Although this hunter was sharing meat, he was not doing so in the framework of reciprocity.
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