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We thank the National Forestry Authority of Uganda and the Uganda National Council for Science and Technology for permits and support for the research. We thank the research assistants and other workers in Bushenyi, Uganda, for support for data collection and maintenance of the study sites. We thank Dr. T. Kano, Dr. T. Matsuzawa, and other members of the Primate Research Institute for support and encouragement. We also thank anonymous reviewers, Dr. Sarie Van Belle (handling editor), and Dr. Joanna Setchell (editor-in-chief) for their careful reading and valuable suggestions for this paper. This study was financially supported by the Japan Ministry of the Environment Global Environment Research Fund (F-061 to T. Nishida; D-1007 to T. Furuichi), JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (17570193, 19405015, 40379011 , 18KK0204 to C. Hashimoto; 17255005, 22255007, 26257408 to T. Furuichi; 24255010 to J. Yamagiwa; 21255006, 25257409 to H. Ihobe; 25257407 to T. Yumoto), the JSPS Asia-Africa Science Platform Program (2009–2011, 2012–2014 to T. Furuichi), the JSPS HOPE project of the Primate Research Institute (PRI) of Kyoto University (to T. Matsuzawa), a MEXT special grant “Human Evolution”), and MEXT Leading Graduate Program “Primatology and Wildlife Science.”
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CH performed data collection and data analysis and wrote the article. MI and HT performed data collection. KM performed data analysis.
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Hashimoto, C., Isaji, M., Mouri, K. et al. Intergroup Encounters of Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) from the Female Perspective. Int J Primatol 41, 171–180 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-020-00145-8
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