Chimpanzees of the Budongo Forest : Ecology, Behaviour, and Conservation

24 The Sonso community (a) (b) (c) (d) Fig. 2.3: Some individuals in the Sonso community. (a) Black. (b) Maani. (c) Bwoba. (d) D ...

After that, increases and decreases in the population of the Sonso community were due to births, deaths and migration rather tha ...

provisioned (Wilson and Wrangham 2003). In consequence of our decision not to attract our chimpanzees with food, we had to habit ...

There is no doubt, as my colleague Duane Quiatt has often pointed out to me, that the presence of human observers has some kind ...

many universities, would be a considerable task. In the preparation of this book I have used my own data and, with permission, d ...

study using three methods of analysis (minimum polygon, fixed kernel and adaptive kernel), as between 6.78 and 14.51 km^2 , givi ...

It thus appears likely that we have a high population density of chimpanzees at Sonso. However, there is an important proviso to ...

into Sonso territory and our chimpanzees appeared frightened of them. We feared at that time that all our males might be killed, ...

The migration process is also found in females of other communities studied. For example, Goodall (1986: 87) gives details of 12 ...

smaller (N27). Boesch and Boesch-Achermann (2000: 21–22) also found no evi- dence for a birth season based on a sample of 75 bi ...

cases. At Taï the IBI when the first infant survived was 69.5 months, when it died the IBI was 12.9 months (Boesch and Boesch-Ac ...

on her vagina as if she was waiting for something. KY repeatedly touched her vagina and moved about in the tree, changing from o ...

reference to the categories used by other field workers, e.g. Goodall (1986), Boesch and Boesch-Achermann (2000) and Kawanaka (1 ...

Demographic structure What conclusions can we draw from the demographic structure of the Sonso community? Perhaps the most impor ...

3. Morbidity and mortality KigereKadogonew dead baby — miscarriage — c. 4 months? — hands and feet not fully formed — she drap ...

Intestinal parasites 39 to age, sex and dominance rank. Female chimpanzees had higher levels of infection than male chimpanzees; ...

40 Morbidity and mortality Table 3.2: Intestinal parasites found in primate species in the range of the Sonso chimpanzees, and i ...

Medicinal plant use 41 Ashfordet al. (1990) in Batwa pygmies and gorillas in Uganda, was not found in the human samples at Sonso ...

42 Morbidity and mortality Fig. 3.3: Electron micrograph of surface of leaf of Aneilema aequinoctialeshowing trichomes (photo: O ...

Soil-eating 43 Parasite control is achieved not only by the physical action of leaves being swallowed whole, however. As Huffman ...