Noninvasive Tuberculosis Screening in Free-Living Primate Populations in Gombe National Park, Tanzania

EcoHealth ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiffany M. Wolf ◽  
Srinand Sreevatsan ◽  
Randall S. Singer ◽  
Iddi Lipende ◽  
Anthony Collins ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Free Living ◽  
Tuberculosis Screening ◽  
Gombe National Park

Tool-use in Free-living Baboons in the Gombe National Park, Tanzania

Nature ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 241 (5386) ◽  
pp. 212-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
JANE VAN LAWICK-GOODALL ◽  
H. VAN LAWICK ◽  
C. PACKER
Keyword(s):  
Tool Use ◽  
National Park ◽  
Free Living ◽  
Gombe National Park

Anxiety-related behavior of orphan chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) at Gombe National Park, Tanzania

Primates ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Botero ◽  
Suzanne E. MacDonald ◽  
Rowland S. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Pan Troglodytes ◽  
National Park ◽  
Pan Troglodytes Schweinfurthii ◽  
Gombe National Park

Competition for Meat between Chimpanzees and Baboons of the Gombe National Park

1977 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Morris ◽  
Jane Goodall
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Gombe National Park

scholarly journals Chimpanzee pant-hoots encode information about individual but not group differences

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nisarg P. Desai ◽  
Pawel Fedurek ◽  
Katie E. Slocombe ◽  
Michael L. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Regional Variation ◽  
National Park ◽  
Nonhuman Primates ◽  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
Vocal Learning ◽  
Group Differences ◽  
Gombe National Park ◽  
Pant Hoot ◽  
Community Variation ◽  
Acoustic Variation

AbstractVocal learning, the ability to voluntarily modify the acoustic structure of vocalizations based on social cues, is a fundamental feature of speech in humans (Homo sapiens). While vocal learning is common in taxa such as songbirds and whales, the vocal learning capacities of nonhuman primates appear more limited. Intriguingly, evidence for vocal learning has been reported in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), for example in the form of regional variation (‘dialects’) in the ‘pant-hoot’ calls. This suggests that some capacity for vocal learning may be an ancient feature of the Pan-Homo clade. Nonetheless, reported differences have been subtle, with inter-community variation representing only a small portion of the total acoustic variation. To gain further insights into the extent of regional variation in chimpanzee vocalizations, we performed an analysis of pant-hoots from chimpanzees in the neighboring Kasekela and Mitumba communities at Gombe National Park, Tanzania, and the geographically distant Kanyawara community at Kibale National Park, Uganda. We observed group differences only among the geographically isolated communities and did not find any differences between the neighboring communities at Gombe. Furthermore, we found differences among individuals in all communities. Hence, the variation in chimpanzee pant-hoots reflected individual differences, rather than group differences. The limited evidences for vocal learning in Pan suggest that extensive vocal learning emerged in the human lineage after the divergence from Pan.

scholarly journals Two newly observed cases of fish-eating in anubis baboons

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akiko Matsumoto-Oda ◽  
Anthony D. Collins
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Young Female ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Adult Males ◽  
Papio Anubis ◽  
Gombe National Park ◽  
Dry Seasons ◽  
Anubis Baboons

Most non-human primates are omnivorous and eat a wide variety of food types like as fruit, leaves, seeds, insects, gums or a mixture of these items. In spite of frequent eating of fish in human, there are few species to eat fishes in non-human primates. Observations of fish-eating in wild primates bring us an important cue for the question why humans have evolved appetite for fish. Here we report two new fish-eating cases observed in anubis baboons (Papio anubis) at the Mpala Research Centre, Kenya and the Gombe National Park, Tanzania. Both cases were observed in dry seasons, and two adult males and a young female ate recently dead or dying fishes in each case. In these two cases, the opportunity of fish-eating occurred by chance and it will be difficult for them to eat fishes ordinarily.

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