Mahale Chimpanzees
50 Years of Research
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- Editors:
- Michio Nakamura, Kyoto University, Japan
- Kazuhiko Hosaka, Kamakura Women’s University, Japan
- Noriko Itoh, Kyoto University, Japan
- Koichiro Zamma, Great Ape Research Institute
- Date Published: November 2015
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107052314
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Long-term ecological research studies are rare and invaluable resources, particularly when they are as thoroughly documented as the Mahale Mountain Chimpanzee Project in Tanzania. Directed by Toshisada Nishida from 1965 until 2011, the project continues to yield new and fascinating findings about our closest neighbour species. In a fitting tribute to Nishida's contribution to science, this book brings together fifty years of research into one encyclopaedic volume. Alongside previously unpublished data, the editors include new translations of Japanese writings throughout the book to bring previously inaccessible work to non-Japanese speakers. The history and ecology of the site, chimpanzee behaviour and biology, and ecological management are all addressed through firsthand accounts by Mahale researchers. The authors highlight long-term changes in behaviour, where possible, and draw comparisons with other chimpanzee sites across Africa to provide an integrative view of chimpanzee research today.
Read more- A unique and encyclopaedic volume, written by researchers directly involved in the Mahale Mountain Chimpanzee Project, Tanzania
- Published to mark the project's fiftieth anniversary, this is the only volume to summarise research at Mahale from 1965 to 2015, with fifty chapters covering all aspects from historical context to chimpanzee social organisation, ecology and the effects of tourism
- Includes new translations of Japanese writings, bringing previously inaccessible work to non-Japanese speakers
Awards
- Winner, 2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
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"This is the most comprehensive review of research at a single study site of wild chimpanzees written to date … The book is beautifully produced, with immense attention to detail, many illustrations and figures, and is very clearly written. As a result, the chapters are clear and straightforward. The 70 or so mainly Japanese researchers whose work is summarised here are dedicated, independent and fearless … Chapter 24, on self-medication, written by Mike Huffman, is the best account I have read of the convoluted history of chimpanzee pharmacognoscy … a wonderful book to dip into …"
Vernon Reynolds, PrimatesSee more reviews'This book offers a deep dive into one of the most successful primatological projects ever conducted … We are provided with a vivid image, a family picture, of some of our living relatives - their daily lives and the very-present threats that loom over them.' Thibaud Gruber, Conservation Biology
'One hopes this book will encourage collaborative efforts among sites to better control for differences in methodology. … Overall, this volume represents an enormous and useful undertaking that will be of interest to readers, including primatologists, evolutionary anthropologists, and ecologists.' Michael L. Wilson, The Quarterly Review of Biology
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- Date Published: November 2015
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107052314
- length: 797 pages
- dimensions: 253 x 198 x 38 mm
- weight: 1.82kg
- contains: 256 b/w illus. 54 tables
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
List of contributors
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction Michio Nakamura
Part I. History and Overview:
2. Overview of the field site: Mahale Mountains and their surroundings
3. Research history
4. Chimpanzee distribution: accumulation of survey reports
5. Who's who
Part II. Social Organization:
6. Social system: features and variations
7. Demography of the M group
8. Home range
9. Fission–fusion grouping
10. Disappearance of K group male chimpanzees: re-examination of group extinction
11. Intergroup relationships
Part III. Ecology:
12. Climate and climatological trends in the Kasoje Forest
13. Mahale flora: its historical background and long-term changes
14. Patterns and trends in fruiting phenology: some implications for important chimpanzee diet
15. Mammalian fauna
16. Interspecific relationships
Part IV. Feeding:
17. Diet and feeding behavior
18. Taste of chimpanzee foods
19. Seeds from feces: implications for seed dispersal and fecal analyses
20. Hunting and food sharing
21. Insect-feeding behavior and insect fauna: with special reference to plant–insect relationships
Part V. Life History and Health:
22. Development and growth: with special reference to mother–infant relationships
23. Gerontology
24. Chimpanzee self-medication: a historical perspective of the key findings
25. Diseases and deaths: variety and impact on social life
26. Conspecific killings
Part VI. Social Relations:
27. Male-male relationships
28. Female–female relationships
29. Male–female relationships: affiliative, interventional, and dominant–subordinate interactions
30. Orphans and allomothering
Part VII. Social Behavior:
31. Intimidation display
32. Aggression and conflict management
33. Greetings and dominance
35. Sexual behavior and mating strategies
36. Social play: history of the studies at Mahale and a new perspective
37. Ethograms and the diversity of behaviors
Part VIII. Behavioral Diversity:
38. Culture
39. Vocal communication
40. Diversity of play
41. Laterality of hand function
42. Use of tools and other objects
43. Bed making and nocturnal behavior
Part IX. From Field to Lab:
44. Field endocrinology
45. Skeletal and dental morphology
46. Genetic studies
47. Internal parasites
Part X. People and Chimpanzees:
48. Current status of tourism
49. Culture and subsistence ecology of the Tongwe, and their significance in chimpanzee research
50. Conservation and the future
Appendix I. Plant list
Appendix II. Dietary list
Appendix III. Mammal list
Appendix IV. Meteorological data collected at Kansyana, 1983–2013
Appendix V. List of researchers who visited Mahale
Appendix VI. List of abbreviations used for Mahale chimpanzee names
Appendix VII. Research and conservation funds for Mahale
Index.-
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