The Chimpanzees of Bossou and Nimba

Front Matter....Pages i-xxvii
Color Plates....Pages xxi-xxvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Bossou: 33 Years....Pages 3-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Location and Ecology....Pages 13-21
The Demography and Reproductive Parameters of Bossou Chimpanzees....Pages 23-34
The “Prehistory” Before 1976: Looking Back on Three Decades of Research on Bossou Chimpanzees....Pages 35-44
The Chimpanzees of West Africa: From “Man-Like Beast” to “Our Endangered Cousin”....Pages 45-57
Front Matter....Pages 59-59
The Tool Repertoire of Bossou Chimpanzees....Pages 61-71
Stone Tools for Nut-Cracking....Pages 73-83
Use of Leaves for Drinking Water....Pages 85-96
Ant-Dipping: How Ants Have Shed Light on Culture....Pages 97-105
Pestle-Pounding Behavior: The Key to the Coexistence of Humans and Chimpanzees....Pages 107-115
Algae Scooping Remains a Puzzle....Pages 117-122
Ant Fishing in Trees: Invention and Modification of a New Tool-Use Behavior....Pages 123-130
Log Doll: Pretence in Wild Chimpanzees....Pages 131-135
Animal Toying....Pages 137-141
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
Extensive Surveys of Chimpanzee Stone Tools: From the Telescope to the Magnifying Glass....Pages 145-155
Field Experiments of Tool-Use....Pages 157-164
Clues to Culture? The Coula- and Panda-Nut Experiments....Pages 165-173
From Handling Stones and Nuts to Tool-Use....Pages 175-182
The Emergence of Stone-Tool Use in Captive Chimpanzees....Pages 183-190
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
A Gibsonian Motor Analysis of the Nut-Cracking Technique....Pages 191-199
Education by Master-Apprenticeship....Pages 201-208
Front Matter....Pages 209-209
The Crop-Raiders of the Sacred Hill....Pages 211-220
Behavioral Flexibility and Division of Roles in Chimpanzee Road-Crossing....Pages 221-229
Play Behaviors Involving the Use of Objects in Young Chimpanzees at Bossou....Pages 231-240
Chimpanzee Mothers Carry the Mummified Remains of Their Dead Infants: Three Case Reports from Bossou....Pages 241-250
Comparison of Social Behaviors....Pages 251-263
Front Matter....Pages 265-265
The Chimpanzees of Yealé, Nimba....Pages 267-275
Chimpanzees in the Seringbara Region of the Nimba Mountains....Pages 277-287
Chimpanzees in the Eastern Part of the Nimba Mountains Biosphere Reserve: Gouéla II and Déré Forest....Pages 289-299
Diécké Forest, Guinea: Delving into Chimpanzee Behavior Using Stone Tool Surveys....Pages 301-312
From Bossou to the Forests of Liberia....Pages 313-321
Front Matter....Pages 323-323
The 2003 Epidemic of a Flu-Like Respiratory Disease at Bossou....Pages 325-333
Microclimate and Moving Pattern....Pages 335-338
Genetic Variation in the Chimpanzees of Bossou and Nimba....Pages 339-345
Intestinal Bacteria in Chimpanzees in Bossou: A Preliminary Study of Their Nutritional Implication....Pages 347-352
Health Monitoring....Pages 353-359
Green Corridor Project: Planting Trees in the Savanna Between Bossou and Nimba....Pages 361-370
Environmental Education and Community Development in and Around Bossou....Pages 371-380
Conservation Issues in the Nimba Mountains....Pages 381-392
Front Matter....Pages 323-323
Chimpanzees in Guinea and in West Africa....Pages 393-401
Back Matter....Pages 403-465