Wounding aggression during the formation and maintenance of captive, multimale chimpanzee groups (1995)

Alford, P. L., Bloomsmith, M. A., Keeling, M. E. et al.

Abstract

Based on a 14-year survey of one facility, the incidence of injuries resulting from aggression during and after group formation of chimpanzees is assessed and its managerial implications discussed. There is more wounding and more severe wounding in groups composed of older, socially experienced males than in groups composed of younger socially inexperienced males, many of whom also had extensive visual exposure to one another before grouping.