The paper describes the results of the first 15 months of fieldwork with an emphasis on co-existence of chimpanzees and humans in Bandafassi Arrondissement, Senegal. We present a vision for the sustainable community-based conservation of savanna apes via field surveys.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2496335
The text as a foreword for the book “The cultured chimpanzee” was written during the research in Senegal in spring 2011. It describes the actual experience from the African terrain, which is the basis for the science of cultural primatology. I also presented the exciting discoveries of tool-use among the savanna chimpanzees of the Fongoli community.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2448719
The paper introduced the elementary technology (baobab pounding, termite-fishing, and ant-dipping) of savanna chimpanzees (P. t. verus) in SE Senegal and its relevance for cultural primatology. The results steem from fieldwork between 2004 and 2008, and are focused on tool analyses (stone anvils, plant probes) and behavioral data from the Fongoli community. Observations of the first habituated ape group in a habitat reminiscent of the landscape where our early ancestors evolved, provided unexpected findings for understanding human evolution (e.g. spear-use in hunting galagos and percussion).
COBISS.SI-ID: 1510524