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  "id": 18004364,
  "title": "Ranging and territoriality in African Apes",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/03/ranging-and-territoriality-in-african-apes",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-11-03T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.11.03.763879v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Intergroup relations vary strikingly among African apes, with only chimpanzees showing intense, often lethal territoriality. The economic defendability hypothesis proposes that such territorial behaviour is favored where home ranges can be economically defended, as indexed by the ratio of daily travel distance to home range diameter. To test this idea, we compiled and analyzed comparable data on…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}