Entries Tagged as ‘Chimpanzee’
May 29, 2009
A New Malaria Pathogen Found In Chimpanzees From Gabon
Plasmodium falciparum is the protozoan parasite that causes malaria in humans and ultimately the death of 2-3 million people a year. If you didn’t know, malaria is one of the most common infectious diseases and an enormous public health problem. Only one other malaria causing protozoan, a sister species of the P. falciparum parasite, P. [...]
October 15, 2008
Right-Handed Bias & The Origins Of Communication
I spent a couple years studying non-verbal communication in gorillas, so to read news that there’s some breakthroughs in our understandings handedness and communication in apes made me extremely excited. The news originates from Gillian Sebestyen-Forrester‘s latest paper in the journal Animal Behaviour, “A multidimensional approach to investigations of behaviour: revealing structure in animal communication [...]
October 14, 2008
A Sharp Decline In Chimpanzee Populations In Côte d’Ivoire
From John Hawks comes distressing news of a 90% decline in headcount of chimpanzees from Côte d’Ivoire, published in the latest issue of Current Biology. The paper, “Alarming decline of West African chimpanzees in Côte d’Ivoire,” is authored by some familiar names. One that I quickly recognized is Christophe Boesche, who captured videos of chimpanzee [...]
October 13, 2008
Anjana The Chimpanzee’s Bond With Two White Tigers
A couple of the most popular posts of all time, here at Primatology.net, have been the cute-overload-esque ones, such as the baby macaque and white pigeon friendship and the orangutan and Sumatran tiger bond. Similar to the latter story, a new one has emerged of a chimpanzee named Anjana ‘adopting’ two white tiger cubs named [...]
May 5, 2008
Video Clips of JJ from Bossou, Guinea fishing for tools
I just posted about JJ’s novel tool use, and I thought you may wanna see him actually fishing for ants. The authors of the paper provided videos of JJ using his tools. I’ve uploaded it to YouTube for your viewing pleasure.
May 5, 2008
Novel Tool-Use observed in a wild Chimpanzee from Bossou, Guinea
Even though I’ve been posting a lot on tool use lately, I’m sure you will appreciate this new study. The new study, “Invention and modification of a new tool use behavior: ant-fishing in trees by a wild chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) at Bossou, Guinea,” has been published in the most recent issue of the American [...]
April 3, 2008
Frans Lanting on the Fongoli Spear Hunting Chimps
It has been far too long since I’ve updated this blog. I apologize, there certainly has not been a lack of material to share — just a lack of time and overemphasis on Anthropology.net, which is totally my bad, I don’t intend to neglect this site again. Anyways, photographer Frans Lanting recently travelled to take [...]
January 25, 2008
Pandemic Human viruses causing a massive decline in Great Ape populations
A new Current Biology paper has documented what I’ve been following attentively sine 2006, the effect of exposure of human pathogens to great apes in the wild. The paper, “Pandemic Human Viruses Cause Decline of Endangered Great Apes,” is out on early advance release. In order to thoroughly study the epidemiology of two communities of [...]
