Chimpanzees of the Budongo Forest : Ecology, Behaviour, and Conservation
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1. The Budongo Forest Up early, fried mashed spuds from last nightfried egg, all done in oil and v. tasty...Geresomu takes the ...
6 The Budongo Forest Uganda in Africa 0 ° 0 ° 0 ° 0 ° 33 °E 31 °30'E 1 °45'N Siba 31 °30'E 33 °E 33 °E 33 °E Budongo Forest Rese ...
guinea fowl. It has blue duikers, red duikers, bushbuck, elephant shrews, bushpigs, red river hogs, porcupines and honey badgers ...
With the onset of human activity we have two sets of forces shaping the forests. On the one hand we have the climate, with fores ...
answer may have something to do with the fact that chimpanzees are very good at moving between forest patches, as we know from o ...
daily at our Sonso camp in the middle of the forest for over 10 years. Rainfall varies between 1240 mm and 2187 mm per annum wit ...
west, north and south. Besides these victims of political upheaval there are a number of other reasons for population increase a ...
the last 50 years the whole of the area around Budongo Forest has come to be inhabited by people. We shall look at the details o ...
other species) becomes established, with highly efficient roots and whose seedlings and saplings thrive in conditions of extreme ...
in the recent history of the forest, and they do not make allowance for the possibility that particular soil conditions or rainf ...
equipment was introduced to Budongo to make mosaic parquetry flooring panels from Cynometra. Nevertheless, mahoganies were the m ...
part of the forest to fell again). Over a large area, trees of no commercial value such as figs, especially the so-called ‘stran ...
been very involved in the arboricide programme in Budongo Forest and whom we had met in Budongo (he stayed with us for a week in ...
The 1951 figure showed a predominance of Cynometraforest; 40 years on this was much reduced and Mixed Forest predominated, as ca ...
leaves in the lower canopy you see everywhere the signs of disease. Arthropods abound in the leaf litter on the ground, up every ...
from the parent tree. Plumptre (1995) has shown that parent trees of Khayaneed to have attained a dbh (diameter at breast height ...
2. The Sonso community 2 It remains the most exciting thing to be walking fast in the forest, moving with a travelling party of ...
length of observation until asymptote is reached and, however long observation continues, no more individuals are encountered. T ...
Counting chimpanzees in a community 23 Fig. 2.2: The author with field assistants Geresomu Muhumuza and Zephyr Kiwede in the for ...
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