Joint cooperative hunting among wild chimpanzees: Taking natural observations seriously
Christophe Boesch a1 a1 Department of Primatology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
boesch@eva.mpg.de
Abstract
Ignoring most published evidence on wild chimpanzees, Tomasello et al.'s claim that shared goals and intentions are uniquely human amounts to a faith statement. A brief survey of chimpanzee hunting tactics shows that group hunts are compatible with a shared goals and intentions hypothesis. The disdain of observational data in experimental psychology leads some to ignore the reality of animal cognitive achievements.
