Abstract
We investigated dyadic grooming relationships in a captive group of bonobos (Pan paniscus)
and questioned what social function grooming fulfils in the ‘market of services and favors’.
Hereto we examined which of two theoretical models - grooming for support (Seyfarth,
1977, 1980) or grooming according to the similarity principle (de Waal & Luttrell,
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