<Note> Power Takeover Occurred in M Group of the Mahale Mountains, Tanzania, in 2007

Abstract

Male chimpanzees compete for high rank, especially, alpha status since it confers the high reproductive success 1 .2. Power takeovers have been recorded, but opportunities to observe such incidents are rare. Social intelligence seems to be exhibited so much in the course of dominance competition that documentation of social interactions is theoretically importane--{j. I briefly report here some interesting episodes during the recent takeover 13