Chimpanzees and humans have co-existed in Africa for millennia. The forests inhabited by chimpanzees have experienced numerous changes in recent time, most notably during the last 12,000 years, as the current interglacial age started. In this article, I will study the case of Western Ugandan forests to describe the different factors, natural and human-induced, which affect a tropical forest, and draw hypotheses on the influence of these changes on chimpanzee cultural behaviour. Before colonial times, the Budongo Forest was shaped by elephant migrations and fires lit by the pastoralists who settled in the area. Later on, the British colonial power organized the exploitation of the forest through work plans aimed at insuring sustainable extra...
Animal Cognition, V.6, pp. 213-223Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) are the most proficient and versati...
The Japanese approach to science has permitted theoretical leaps in our understanding of culture in ...
The research leading to these results has received funding from the People Programme (Marie Curie Ac...
The influence of ecology on the development of behavioral traditions in animals is controversial, pa...
As humans continue to modify natural habitats in Africa, particularly outside of protected areas, th...
Chimpanzees are well-known tool users, with differences reported in the tool use repertoires among c...
Behavioural flexibility may be crucial for the long-term persistence of animals in human-modified ha...
As habitat loss and fragmentation place growing pressure on endangered nonhuman primate populations,...
The existence of non-human animal (hereafter animal) culture, i.e., behaviours that are group-typica...
A key feature of human behavioral diversity is that it can be constrained by cultural preference (“c...
The extraction of timber often conflicts with the well-being and conservation of wildlife. In partic...
<div><p>Hunting and sharing of meat is seen across all chimpanzee sites, with variation in prey pref...
A key feature of human behavioral diversity is that it can be constrained by cultural preference (“c...
Large brains and behavioural innovation are positively-correlated, species-specific traits, associat...
Geographical variation in behaviour may be best explained in terms of culture if ecological and gene...
Animal Cognition, V.6, pp. 213-223Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) are the most proficient and versati...
The Japanese approach to science has permitted theoretical leaps in our understanding of culture in ...
The research leading to these results has received funding from the People Programme (Marie Curie Ac...
The influence of ecology on the development of behavioral traditions in animals is controversial, pa...
As humans continue to modify natural habitats in Africa, particularly outside of protected areas, th...
Chimpanzees are well-known tool users, with differences reported in the tool use repertoires among c...
Behavioural flexibility may be crucial for the long-term persistence of animals in human-modified ha...
As habitat loss and fragmentation place growing pressure on endangered nonhuman primate populations,...
The existence of non-human animal (hereafter animal) culture, i.e., behaviours that are group-typica...
A key feature of human behavioral diversity is that it can be constrained by cultural preference (“c...
The extraction of timber often conflicts with the well-being and conservation of wildlife. In partic...
<div><p>Hunting and sharing of meat is seen across all chimpanzee sites, with variation in prey pref...
A key feature of human behavioral diversity is that it can be constrained by cultural preference (“c...
Large brains and behavioural innovation are positively-correlated, species-specific traits, associat...
Geographical variation in behaviour may be best explained in terms of culture if ecological and gene...
Animal Cognition, V.6, pp. 213-223Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) are the most proficient and versati...
The Japanese approach to science has permitted theoretical leaps in our understanding of culture in ...
The research leading to these results has received funding from the People Programme (Marie Curie Ac...