The chimpanzees of the Budongo Forest : ecology, behaviour, and conservation / Vernon Reynolds ; [with an introduction by Jane Goodall].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reynolds.

Contributor:

Vernon..

Series:

Oxford biology.

Oxford biology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chimpanzees--Uganda--Budongo Forest.

Chimpanzees.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Unlike humans, who came down from the trees and developed bipedal locomotion, chimpanzees have remained in the original habitat of our ancestors: the tropical rainforests of Africa.In this book, Vernon Reynolds describes in detail the work of a large number of students and senior researchers on the wild chimpanzees of the Budongo Forest Reserve in Western Uganda. He presents a coherent and in-depth account of one chimpanzee community of more than 60 individuals living in the Sonso area in the middle of the Budongo Forest, which he and his colleagues have studied intensively over the last 15 ye

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; Permissions; List of Maps; Introduction; 1. The Budongo Forest; History of the forest; The forest in more detail; Climate; Disease and the human population; Dynamics of Budongo Forest; Timber; The forest today; 2. The Sonso community; Counting chimpanzees in a community; Habituation; Data; Range and density of the Sonso community; Community size; Births; The birth of Katia; Age and age groups; Infertility; Demographic structure; Males who go missing temporarily; 3. Morbidity and mortality; Intestinal parasites; Medicinal plant use; Soil-eating

SIVcpz status of the Sonso chimpanzeesDeath rate; Death of a young adult male; Death of an adult female; Death of an old male; Human-ape disease transmission; Non-fatal epidemic; Injuries; 4. Diet and culture at Sonso; Forest types and chimpanzee foods; Food types and food species; Insects and honey; Food preferences; Factors underlying food preferences: sugars and tannins; Food availability; Seed dispersal by chimpanzees; Fruit-sharing; Termite-eating and sharing; Meat-eating; Co-ordinated hunting; Crop-raiding; Sonso culture; 5. Social organization; Parties, food and social factors

Party sizeParty duration; Party composition; Effects of oestrous females on party size and party type; Time of day and party size; Seasonality; Influence of food supply on party size; Nesting and nesting parties; Consortships; Kinship; Ranges and ranging behaviour; Inter-community movements of adult females; Inter-community fighting; 6. Social behaviour and relationships; Communication; Grooming and other affiliative behaviours; Play; Sex and reproduction; Copulation and time of day; Seasonality of oestrous cycles; Status; Status change; Tactical association and alliance partners

How to defeat an aggressive challengerReconciliation; Status among females; Vocalizations; Pant-hoots; Barks; Screams; 7. Infanticide; First observation of infanticide; Infanticide by Sonso males; Infanticide within the community; The role of females in cases of infanticide; 8. Intra-community killing - the case of Zesta; Inter-community killing between adults; Zesta; Background to Zesta; The killing of Zesta; Zesta's injuries; Interpretation; 9. The problem of snares; The background to snaring; Snare types; Traps; Injuries from snares and traps; Deaths; Deaths from snares; Deaths from traps

Death from spearingEffects of snare injuries on feeding and social life; Snare removal project; Live-trap project; Release of chimpanzees from live-traps; Snare injuries at other sites; 10. The human foreground; Micro-demography of the local population; Local uses of forest products; Local attitudes to the forest; Health; Medical personnel; Cash; Fear of the forest; Why stay?; Beyond cash; Crop-raiding; Why grow 'at-risk' crops?; Baboons; Chimpanzees and humans; 11. The Kasokwa Forest chimpanzees: a breakdown of trust; Tool-use by Kasokwa chimpanzees; Chimpanzee-human conflict

Further cases of trapping

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-290) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-281-19038-1

9786611190385

0-19-152333-X

0-19-851545-6

1-4356-2073-9

OCLC:

190932409