| Description |
1 online resource (xxvi, 465 pages) : color illustrations |
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Primatology monographs |
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Primatology monographs.
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| Contents |
Bossou: 33 Years / Tetsuro Matsuzawa and Tatyana Humle -- Location and ecology / Tatyana Humle -- The demography and reproductive parameters of Bossou chimpanzees / Yukimaru Sugiyama and Shiho Fujita -- The "prehistory" before 1976: looking back on three decades of research on Bossou chimpanzees / Gen Yamakoshi -- The chimpanzees of West Africa: from "man-like beast" to "our endangered cousin" / Asami Kabasawa -- The tool repertoire of Bossou chimpanzees / Tatyana Humle -- Stone tools for nut-cracking / Tetsuro Matsuzawa -- Use of leaves for drinking water / Cláudia Sousa -- Ant-dipping: how ants have shed light on culture / Tatyana Humle -- Pestle-pounding behavior: the key to the coexistence of humans and chimpanzees / Gen Yamakoshi -- Algae scooping remains a puzzle / Tatyana Humle, Gen Yamakoshi, and Tetsuro Matsuzawa -- Ant fishing in trees: invention and modification of a new tool-use behavior / Shinya Yamamoto, Gen Yamakoshi, Tatyana Humle, and Tetsuro Matsuzawa -- Log doll: pretence in wild chimpanzees / Tetsuro Matsuzawa -- Animal toying / Satoshi Hirata and Yuu Mizuno -- Extensive surveys of chimpanzee stone tools: from the telescope to the magnifying glass / Susana Carvalho -- Field experiments of tool-use / Tetsuro Matsuzawa -- Clues to culture? the coula- and panda-nut experiments / Dora Biro -- From handling stones and nuts to tool-use / Misato Hayashi and Noriko Inoue-Nakamura -- The emergence of stone-tool use in captive chimpanzees / Satoshi Hirata and Misato Hayashi -- A Gibsonian motor analysis of the nut-cracking technique / Blandine Bril, Gilles Dietrich, and Satoshi Hirata -- Education by master-apprenticeship / Tetsuro Matsuzawa -- The crop-raiders of the sacred hill / Kimberley Jane Hockings -- Behavioral flexibility and division of roles in chimpanzee road-crossing / Kimberley Jane Hockings -- Play behaviors involving the use of objects in young chimpanzees at Bossou / Masako Myowa-Yamakoshi and Gen Yamakoshi -- Chimpanzee mothers carry the mummified remains of their dead infants: three case reports from Bossou / Dora Biro -- Comparison of social behaviors / Michio Nakamura -- The chimpanzees of Yealé, Nimba / Tatyana Humle -- Chimpanzees in the Seringbara Region of the Nimba Mountains / Kathelijne Koops -- Chimpanzees in the eastern part of the Nimba Mountains Biosphere Reserve: Gouéla II and Déré Forest / Nicolas Granier -- Diécké Forest, Guinea: delving into chimpanzee behavior using stone tool surveys / Susana Carvalho -- From Bossou to the forests of Liberia / Gaku Ohashi -- The 2003 epidemic of a flu-like respiratory disease at Bossou / Tatyana Humle -- Microclimate and moving pattern / Hiroyuki Takemoto -- Genetic variation in the chimpanzees of Bossou and Nimba / Makoto K. Shimada -- Intestinal bacteria in chimpanzees in Bossou: a preliminary study of their nutritional implication / Kazunari Ushida -- Health monitoring / Shiho Fujita -- Green Corridor Project: planting trees in the savanna Between Bossou and Nimba / Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Gaku Ohashi, Tatyana Humle, Nicolas Granier, Makan Kourouma, and Aly Gaspard Soumah -- Environmental education and community development in and around Bossou / Tatyana Humle -- Conservation issues in the Nimba Mountains / Nicolas Granier and Laura Martinez -- Chimpanzees in Guinea and in West Africa / Tatyana Humle and Rebecca Kormos |
| Summary |
The chimpanzees of Bossou in Guinea, West Africa, form a unique community which displays an exceptional array of tool use behaviors and behavioral adaptations to coexistence with humans. This community of Pan troglodytes verus has contributed more than three decades of data to the field of cultural primatology, especially chimpanzees' flexible use of stones to crack open nuts and of perishable tools during foraging activities. The book highlights the special contribution of the long-term research at Bossou and more recent studies in surrounding areas, particularly in the Nimba Mountains and the forest of Dǐcǩ, to our understanding of wild chimpanzees' tool use, cognitive development, lithic technology and culture. This compilation of research principally strives to uncover the complexity of the mind and behavioral flexibility of our closest living relatives. This work also reveals the necessity for ongoing efforts to conserve chimpanzees in the region. Chimpanzees have shed more light on our evolutionary origins than any other extant species in the world, yet their numbers in the wild are rapidly declining. In that sense, the Bossou chimpanzees and their neighbors clearly embody an invaluable cultural heritage for humanity as a whole. Readers can enjoy video clips illustrating unique behaviors of Bossou chimpanzees, in an exclusive DVD accompanying the hardcover or at a dedicated website described in the softcover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Chimpanzees -- Tanzania
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Chimpanzees -- Guinea
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Tool Use Behavior
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Chimpanzees
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| SUBJECT |
Guinea |
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Guinea
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Tanzania
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Matsuzawa, Tetsurō, 1950-
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Humle, Tatyana
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Sugiyama, Yukimaru, 1935-
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| ISBN |
9784431539216 |
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4431539212 |
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