Introduction / Jane Goodall -- 1. The Budongo Forest -- 2. The Sonso community -- 3. Morbidity and mortality -- 4. Diet and culture at Sonso -- 5. Social organization -- 6. Social behaviour and relationships -- 7. Infanticide -- 8. Intra-community killing -- the case of Zesta -- 9. The problem of snares -- 10. The human foreground -- 11. The Kasokwa Forest chimpanzees : a breakdown of trust -- 12. The future of Budongo's chimpanzees and of the chimpanzees of Uganda as a whole -- App. A. The Sonso chimpanzee community -- App. B. Sonso chimpanzees : plant food species -- App. C. Genetics of the Sonso community -- App. D. Report of (a) necropsy on Ruda and (b) outbreak of respiratory disease -- App. E. Other primate species of the Budongo Forest -- App. F. The Budongo Forest project
Summary
Vernon Reynolds describes in detail the work of a large number of students and senior researchers on the wild chimpanzees of the Budongo Forest Reserve in Western Uganda. He presents a coherent and in-depth account of one chimpanzee community of more than 60 individuals living in the Sonso area in the middle of the Budongo Forest
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-290) and index
