Bonobos and chimpanzees remember familiar conspecifics for decades University of Antwerp Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp
Recognition and memory of familiar conspecifics provides the foundation for complex sociality and is vital to navigating an unpredictable social world [Tibbetts and Dale, Trends Ecol. Evol. 22, 529-537 (2007)]. Human social memory incorporates content about interactions and relationships and can last for decades [Sherry and Schacter, Psychol. Rev. 94, 439-454 (1987)]. Long term social memory likely played a key role throughout human evolution, ...