The Chimpanzees of Bossou and Nimba
The chimpanzees of Bossou in Guinea, West Africa, form a unique community which displays an exceptional array of tool use behaviors and behavioral adaptations to coexistence with humans. This community of Pan troglodytes verus has contributed more than three decades of data to the field of cultural...
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Tokyo :
Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer,
2011.
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| Σειρά: | Primatology Monographs,
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Part 1: Introduction
- 1 Bossou: 33 Years
- Part 2: History and Ecology
- 2 Location and Ecology
- 3 The Demography and Reproductive Parameters of Bossou Chimpanzees
- 4 The “Prehistory” Before 1976: Looking Back on Three Decades of Research on Bossou Chimpanzees
- 5 The Chimpanzees of West Africa: From “Man-Like Beast” to “Our Endangered Cousin”
- Part 3: Culture: Tool manufacture and use
- 6 The Tool Repertoire of Bossou Chimpanzees
- 7 Stone Tools for Nut-Cracking
- 8 Use of Leaves for Drinking Water
- 9 Ant-Dipping: How Ants have Shed Light on Culture
- 10 Pestle-Pounding Behavior: The Key to the Coexistence of Humans and Chimpanzees
- 11 Algae Scooping Remains a Puzzle
- 12 Ant Fishing in Trees: Invention and Modification of a New Tool-Use Behavior
- 13 Log Doll: Pretence in Wild Chimpanzees
- 14 Animal Toying
- Part 4: Stone tool use: Observation and experiments
- 15 Extensive Surveys of Chimpanzee Stone Tools: From the Telescope to the Magnifying Glass
- 16 Field Experiments of Tool-Use
- 17 Clues to Culture? The Coula- and Panda-Nut Experiments
- 18 From Handling Stones and Nuts to Tool-Use
- 19 The Emergence of Stone-Tool Use in Captive Chimpanzees
- 20 A Gibsonian Motor Analysis of the Nut-Cracking Technique
- 21 Education by Master-Apprenticeship
- Part 5: Social life and Social intelligence
- 22 The Crop-Raiders of the Sacred Hill
- 23 Behavioral Flexibility and Division of Roles in Chimpanzee Road-Crossing
- 24 Play Behaviors Involving the Use of Objects in Young Chimpanzees at Bossou.-25 Chimpanzee Mothers Carry the Mummified Remains of Their Dead Infants: Three Case Reports from Bossou
- 26 Comparison of Social Behaviors
- Part 6: Adjacent Communities
- 27 The Chimpanzees of Yealé, Nimba
- 28 Chimpanzees in the Seringbara Region of the Nimba Mountains
- 29 Chimpanzees in the Eastern Part of the Nimba Mountains Biosphere Reserve: Gouéla II and Déré Forest
- 30 Diécké Forest, Guinea: Delvinginto Chimpanzee Behavior Using Stone Tool Surveys
- 31 From Bossou to the Forests of Liberia
- Part 7: Conservation
- 32 The 2003 Epidemic of a Flu-Like Respiratory Disease at Bossou
- 33 Microclimate and Moving Pattern
- 34 Genetic Variation in the Chimpanzees of Bossou and Nimba
- 35 Intestinal Bacteria in Chimpanzees in Bossou: A Preliminary Study of Their Nutritional Implication
- 36 Health Monitoring
- 37 Green Corridor Project: Planting Trees in the Savanna Between Bossou and Nimba
- 38 Environmental Education and Community Development in and Around Bossou
- 39 Conservation Issues in the Nimba Mountains
- 40 Chimpanzees in Guinea and in West Africa.
