Indeed, such social culture has been observed in chimps.

http://www.mpg.de/6328635/chimpanzees_social-traditions

http://phys.org/news/2012-08-chimpanzees-social-traditions.html

http://phys.org/news/2014-06-chimpanzees-spontaneously-cooperative-behavior.html

http://phys.org/news/2013-06-social-networks-monkey-culture-video.html

http://phys.org/news/2013-12-chimpanzees-flexibly-adjust-behavior-maximize.html

Regards,

Joachim

Many thanks indeed for this Joachim. I have seen this work before - extremely interesting. However, I'm more concerned here with rates of pro/anti social behaviours. Specifically, does one community show higher rates of grooming/agression/play (or other pro/anti social behaviours), than another community. That is, is there data suggesting one community of chimpanzees is more violent, or pehaps more 'friendly' (within communities) than other groups? 

Stanford (1998) compared chimpanzee social behaviors across conditions and compared this to bonobos. This was done in a review format, so it could be a nice jumping off point for your literature search.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/204757

Hi Bruce, we have recently shown that chimpanzee communities living in similar environments can differ in their levels of tolerance, measured by proximity indices: http://www.ehbonline.org/article/S1090-5138(14)00055-5/abstract. Furthermore, as you know, we are currently in the process of wrapping up our 2-year study on socio-behavioral group differences at Chimfunshi. We will keep you posted on the results.