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标题：Chimpanzee Predation and the Ecology of Microbial Exchange
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作者：Richard Wrangham ; Michael Wilson ; Brian Hare 等
期刊名称：Microbial Ecology in Health and Disease
印刷版ISSN：1651-2235
出版年度：2000
卷号：12
期号：3
DOI：10.3402/mehd.v12i3.8188
语种：English
出版社：Microbial Ecology in Health and Disease
摘要：Hunting provides one mechanism for the transmission of microbes across host species boundaries. It has generally been assumed that this mechanism leads to unidirectional transmission to humans. We report that wild chimpanzees occasionally prey on human children. This result and other evidence of chimpanzee hunting show the need for consideration of more complex predation-mediated host networks.Keywords: ecology, predation, Pan troglodytes, cross-species transmission, HIV, ebola, monkeypox, hunting, pathogen exchange.