The Chimpanzees of the Budongo Forest

Ecology, Behaviour and Conservation

Vernon Reynolds - Collection Biology

314 pages, parution le 05/08/2005

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Résumé

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 years. The chimpanzees have never been provisioned and live in an entirely natural state. Reynolds describes their forest habitat, their diet and culture, their social organization and behaviour, their diseases, and the threats to them that derive from the actions of people in the surrounding villages, the most serious of these being the presence of snares set by hunters to catch small antelopes and pigs.

As founder and head of the Budongo Forest Project, Professor Reynolds has been responsible for compiling the numerous publications, reports, and dissertations written about these chimpanzees. In this book, he combines these new and often unpublished studies with past publications about Budongo Forest. Where appropriate, he also compares the Budongo chimpanzees with wild chimpanzees studied at other sites across Africa. The result is the most comprehensive account of the Budongo chimpanzees ever published, with a wealth of referenced material that will serve as a source of information for many years to come.

Readership: An advanced textbook suitable for graduate level students as well as professional primatologists, biological anthropologists, zoologists, and conservation biologists.

L'auteur - Vernon Reynolds

Vernon Reynolds, Professor Emeritus of Biological Anthropology, University of Oxford, UK

Sommaire

Jane Goodall: Introduction by Jane Goodall
The Budongo Forest
The Sonso community
Morbidity and mortality
Diet and culture at Sonso
Social organization
Social behaviour and relationships
Infanticide
Intra-community killing
The problem of snares
The human foreground
The Kasokwa Forest chimpanzees
The future of Budongo's chimpanzees and of the chimpanzees of Uganda as a whole
References
Appendix 1. The Sonso chimpanzee community
Appendix 2. Plant food species
Appendix 3. Genetics of the Sonso community
Appendix 4. Reports on (a) necropsy of Ruda; (b) outbreak of respiratory disease
Appendix 5. Other primate species of the Budongo Forest
Appendix 6. The Budongo Forest Project

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Éditeur(s)	Oxford University Press
Auteur(s)	Vernon Reynolds
Collection	Biology
Parution	05/08/2005
Nb. de pages	314
Format	15,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	569g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780198515463
ISBN13	978-0-19-851546-3