The Chimpanzees of the Taï Forest: 40 Years of Research

ISBN-13: 9781108481557 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 516 str.

Christophe Boesch; Roman Wittig; Catherine Crockford

Opis

An engaging account of the research and key findings on Taï chimpanzees to celebrate the 40th anniversary of this project.

Recenzje

'… this is a substantial book that is a 'must-have' on any primatologist's bookshelf …' William C. McGrew , Primates

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Introduction; 1. War and peace in the Taï Chimpanzee Project: running a long-term Chimpanzee research project Christophe Boesch; 2. Developments in statistical methods applied over four decades of research, Taï Chimpanzee Project Roger Mundry; 3. Observation protocol and long-term data collection in Taï Roman Wittig and Christophe Boesch; 4. The Wild Chimpanzee Foundation (WCF) and the Taï Chimpanzee Project (TCP) Emmanuelle Normand, Ilka Herbinger, Joseph Kouassi and Yves A. Kablan; 5. Insights from genetic analyses of the Taï chimpanzees Linda Vigilant; 6. Endocrinological analyses at Taï Tobias Deschner and Verena Behringer; 7. Chimpanzee behavioural diversity and the contribution of the Taï Chimpanzee Project Christophe Boesch; 8. An energetic model of foraging optimisation: wild chimpanzee hammer selection for nut-cracking Giulia Sirianni, Lydia Luncz and Paolo Gratton; 9. Demography and life history of five chimpanzee communities in Taï National Park Christophe Boesch and Roman Wittig; 10. Adoption in the Taï chimpanzees: costs, benefits, and strong social relationships Liran Samuni, Roman Wittig and Catherine Crockford; 11. Spatial integration of unusually high numbers of immigrant females into the South Group: further support for the bisexually-bonded model in Taï chimpanzees Sylvain Lemoine, Catherine Crockford and Roman Wittig; 12. Forty years striving to capture culture among the Taï chimpanzees Christophe Boesch; 13. Cultural diversity of nut-cracking behaviour between two populations of wild chimpanzees (pan troglodytes verus) in the Côte d'Ivoire Lydia Luncz, Roger Mundry, Serge Soiret and Christophe Boesch; 14. Ecological and social influences on rates of social play in immature wild chimpanzees (pan troglodytes verus) Yasmin Moebius, Peter Walsh, Grégoire Kohou and Christophe Boesch; 15. Long-term diet of the chimpanzees (pan troglodytes verus) in Taï National Park: inter-annual variations in consumption Zoro Bertin Gone Bi and Roman Wittig; 16. Why Taï Mangabeys do not use tools to crack nuts like sympatric-living chimpanzees: a cognitive limitation on monkey feeding ecology Karline Janmaat and Richard Byrn; 17. Providing research for conservation from long-term field sites Marie-Lyne Després-Einspenner, Yves A. Kablan, Celestin Kouakou, Hjalmar Kühl and Paul N'Goran; 18. Rank changes in female chimpanzees in Taï National Park Alexander Mielke, Catherine Crockford and Roman Wittig; 19. Effects of large-scale knockouts on chimpanzee association networks Julia Riedel, Christophe Boesch and Mathias Franz; 20. Why do the chimpanzees of the Taï Forest share meat? The value of bartering, begging, and hunting Cristina Gomes, Roger Mundry and Christophe Boesch; 21. Group specific social dynamics affect urinary oxytocin levels in Taï male chimpanzees Anna Preis, Liran Samuni, Tobias Deschner, Catherine Crockford and Roman Wittig; 22. The chimpanzees of the Taï Forest as models for hominine microorganism ecology and evolution Jan Gogarten, Grit Schubert, Fabian Leendertz and Sébastien Calvignac-Spencer; 23. Acute infectious diseases occurring in the Taï chimpanzee population: a review Livia Victoria Patrono and Fabian Leendertz; 24. Why does the chimpanzee vocal repertoire remain poorly understood? And what can be done about it Catherine Crockford; 25. Sexual dimorphism in chimpanzee vocalisations: a comparison of male and female call production and acoustic parameters Ammie Kalan; 26. Gestural usage and development in two subspecies of wild chimpanzees (pan troglodytes Schweinfurthii/Verus) Marlen Fröhlich and Simone Pika; 27. Spatial cognitive abilities in foraging chimpanzees Simone Ban and Emmanuelle Normand; 28. Temporal cognition in Taï chimpanzees Karline Janmaat.