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Toshisada Nishida’s contributions to primatology
(Springer-Verlag; Japan Monkey Centre and Springer-Verlag, 2006-01)
Hunting Behavior of Chimpanzees at Ngogo, Kibale National Park, Uganda
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-02)
Chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes ) prey on a variety of vertebrates, mostly on red colobus ( Procolobus spp. ) where the two species are sympatric. Variation across population occurs in hunting frequency and success, in whether ...
The evolution of non-maternal caretaking among anthropoid primates: do helpers help?
(Springer-Verlag; Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 1997-04)
Non-maternal infant care among nonhuman primates has frequently been investigated from the perspective of the caretaker. Here we examine whether allocaretaking behavior provides direct reproductive benefits to mothers. ...
Introduction to the International Symposium on African Great Apes
(Springer-Verlag; Japan Monkey Centre and Springer-Verlag, 2006-01)
Book reviews
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1978-03)
Contexts and social correlates of long-distance calling by male chimpanzees
(Elsevier, 1993-04)
Abstract. Chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes, live in unstable social groups, whose members associate in temporary parties of varying size and composition. Male chimpanzees utter a long-distance vocalization, the pant-hoot, that ...
General Gregariousness and Specific Social Preferences among Wild Chimpanzees
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1999-10)
Wild chimpanzees form temporary parties that vary in size and composition. Previous studies have revealed considerable intraspecific variation in party compositions. We examined patterns of association among age, sex, and ...
Demography of agile gibbons ( Hylobates agilis )
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1990-10)
Demographic processes and the structure of a population of agile gibbons ( Hylobates agilis ) were investigated over 6 years in the Gunung Palung Reserve, Indonesia. Estimates of population size, density, and biomass ...
Dialects in wild chimpanzees?
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1992)
Chimpanzees emit a loud, species-typical long distance call known as the pant hoot. Geographic variation between the pant hoots of chimpanzees living in two neighboring populations, the Mahale Mountains and Gombe Stream ...
Book Review: The Chimpanzees of the Taï Forest. Behavioural Ecology and Evolution. By Christophe Boesch and Hedwige Boesch-Achermann , Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. 2000, x + 316 pp., $39.50 (paperback)
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-10)