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Shigeo Uehara 《Primates; journal of primatology》1997,38(2):193-214
With respect to prey selectivity and predation frequency, chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) show local differences as well as diachronic variability within the same population. When data on predation from three long-term
studies at Mahale, Gombe, and Tai are compared, some differences and similarities emerge; Mahale is more like Gombe than Tai
in regard of prey selection but features of hunting at Tai with respect to predation frequency are not conspicuous. The most
responsible factor for diversity in prey selectivity is a distinct “prey image” maintained by chimpanzees of different populations,
although it is necessary to clarify in future studies why and how such tradition develops. Relative body size of chimpanzees
to prey species and/or the degree of cooperation among members of a hunting party may explain the variability in prey size
selected at each site, the latter influencing the frequency of successful hunts at the same time. Although various degrees
of habituation and different sampling methods including artificial feeding might have obscured the real differences, recent
data from the three populations do not seem to be biased greatly by such factors. Nevertheless, it is still difficult to make
strict comparisons due to the lack of sufficient standardized data across the three populations on the frequency of hunting
and predation. It is suggested that the size or demographic trend of a chimpanzee unit-group, especially the number of adult
males included, necessarily influences its hunting frequency as well as its prey profile. It is also suggested that factors
which bring these males together into a party (e.g. fruit abundance, swollen females, conflict between unit-groups etc.) strongly
affect theactual hunting and kill rates. Other possible factors responsible for the local differences are forest structure (e.g. tree height),
skilful “hero” chimpanzees, and competition with sympatric carnivorous animals. A total of at least 32 species have been recorded
as prey mammals of chimpanzees from 12 study sites and the most common prey mammals are primates (18 species), of which 13
species are forest monkeys. Forest monkeys, colobine species in particular, are often the most common victims of the predation
by chimpanzees at each site. We may point out a tendency toward selective hunting for the forest monkeys in terms of the selectivity
of prey fauna among all three subspecies of chimpanzees, including populations living in drier environment. The mode of chimpanzee
hunting seems to correspond to the highest available biomass of gregarious, arboreal monkeys in the forest, colobine species
in particular. In contrast, bonobos (P. paniscus) are less carnivorous than chimpanzees, only rarely preying on a few species of small mammals. The sharp contrast of the
two allied species in their predatory tendencies appears to have something to do with the differences in the structure of
primary production between their habitats. 相似文献
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Severe Aggression Among Female Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii at Gombe National Park, Tanzania 总被引:2,自引:2,他引:0
Anne Pusey Carson Murray William Wallauer Michael Wilson Emily Wroblewski Jane Goodall 《International journal of primatology》2008,29(4):949-973
Aggression is generally more severe between males than between females because males gain greater payoffs from escalated aggression.
Males that successfully defeat rivals may greatly increase their access to fertile females. Because female reproductive success
depends on long-term access to resources, competition between females is often sustained but low key because no single interaction
leads to a high payoff. Nonetheless, escalated aggression can sometimes immediately improve a female’s reproductive success.
Resisting new immigrants can reduce feeding competition, and infanticide of other females’ young can increase a female’s access
to resources. East African chimpanzees live in fission-fusion communities in which females occupy overlapping core areas.
Growing evidence indicates that reproductive success correlates with core area quality, and that females compete for long-term
access to core areas. Here we document 5 new cases of severe female aggression in the context of such competition: 2 attacks
by resident females on an immigrant female, a probable intracommunity infanticide, and 2 attacks on a female and her successive
newborn infants by females whose core areas overlapped hers. The cases provide further evidence that females are occasionally
as aggressive as males. Factors influencing the likelihood and severity of such attacks include rank and size differences
and the presence of dependable allies. Counterstrategies to the threat of female aggression include withdrawing from others
around the time of parturition and seeking male protection. We also discuss an unusual case of a female taking the newborn
infant of another, possibly to protect it from a potentially infanticidal female. 相似文献
3.
Masaki Tomonaga 《Primates; journal of primatology》1999,40(3):417-438
Three experiments investigated the inversion effect in face perception by a chimpanzee (Pantroglodytes) under the matching-to-sample paradigm. The first two experiments addressed the inversion effect in the perception of human
faces. In Experiment 1, the subject received identity matching using 104 photographs of faces and houses presented in four
different orientations. The chimpanzee showed better accuracy when the faces were presented upright than when they were inverted.
The inversion effect was not found for photographs of houses. In Experiment 2, the subject received rotational matching in
which the sample and comparisons differed in orientation. The subject showed a clear inversion effect for faces but not for
houses. Experiment 3 explored the hemispheric specialization of the face inversion effect with chimeric (artificially composed)
faces. The subject showed no visual-field preference when the chimeric faces were presented as samples under nonreinforced
probe testing, while the inversion effect was evident when the discrimination was based on the left part of the chimeric sample.
The results suggested that the face-inversion was specific to the left visual field (i.e. right hemispheric processing). In
general, these results were consistent with those found in humans in similar testing situations. 相似文献
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L. A. Fowler W. D. Hopkins H. E. Albers R. D. Morris C. W. Hyatt 《Primates; journal of primatology》1999,40(3):499-508
Seven chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) were trained to present their ears so that a tympanic nembrane thermometer could be inserted. Temperatures were collected
from both ears of each subject every 3 hours for 72 consecutive hours. The presence of a body temperature rhythm, well documented
in other mammals, was established. Each ear demonstrated its own rhythm, but the rhythms in both ears generally mirrored each
other. Similarities in the temperature rhythms of cagemates were found. These data are the first evidence of a body temperature
rhythm in chimpanzees, and they represent a non-invasive method of measuring the 24-hr rhythms in both human and non-human
primates. 相似文献
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To examine the development of cooperation in a captive group of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), we designed an apparatus which required the simultaneous traction by two animals to get a reward. Two chimpanzees, an adult
male and an infant female in a group of six, produced most of the successful responses (pulling on two handles simultaneously).
Visual behavior was used to try to determine what chimpanzees learned about the cooperative task. Propositions were made to
investigate what kind of learning could be attributed to chimpanzees and were confronted with results. Both subjects learned
the link between the presence of fruits on the apparatus and the possibility of getting a fruit. They also learned the importance
of the partner at the apparatus to make a successful response. Only the adult male learned to take into account the behavior
of the partner at the apparatus before pulling a handle. From a methodological point of view, the glances made by the animals
can constitute a useful behavioral indicator of what the subjects learned in a given social situation. 相似文献
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Deborah A. Gust R. Brent Swenson Michael B. Smith John Sikes 《Primates; journal of primatology》1988,29(1):139-143
An apparatus is described which was used to investigate the choice component of foraging in a captive group of chimpanzees
maintained in a large, outdoor compound at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center Field Station. The utilization of more
than one apparatus would allow the investigation of other ecological and psychological concepts in nonhuman primates housed
under semi-natural conditions. 相似文献
7.
Imaginary Play was studied in a group of five signing chimpanzees and it was found that chimpanzees engage in imaginary play
similar to that found in human children. Fifteen hours of remote videotapes were analyzed for instances of imaginary play.
Behaviors were defined as imaginary play by meeting a predetermined criteria which allowed them to be classified into one
of six different categories of imaginary play. Six instances of imaginary play were found and these were classified into the
two categories of Animation and Substitution. Observations of imaginary play in other research with chimpanzees were discussed. 相似文献
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The dichotomy between the two Pan species, the bonobo (Pan paniscus) and chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) has been strongly emphasized until very recently. Given that most studies were primarily based on adult individuals, we shifted the “continuity versus discontinuity” discussion to the infant and juvenile stage. Our aim was to test quantitatively, some conflicting statements made in literature considering species differences between immature bonobos and chimpanzees. On one hand it is suggested that infant bonobos show retardation in motor and social development when compared with chimpanzees. Additionally it is expected that the weaning process is more traumatic to chimpanzee than bonobo infants. But on the other hand the development of behaviors is expected to be very similar in both species. We observed eight mother–infant pairs of each species in several European zoos. Our preliminary research partially confirms that immature chimpanzees seem spatially more independent, spending more time at a larger distance from their mother than immature bonobos. However, the other data do not seem to support the hypothesis that bonobo infants show retardation of motor or social development. The development of solitary play, environmental exploration, social play, non-copulatory mounts and aggressive interactions do not differ between the species. Bonobo infants in general even groom other group members more than chimpanzee infants. We also found that older bonobo infants have more nipple contact than same aged chimpanzees and that the weaning process seems to end later for bonobos than for immature chimpanzee. Additionally, although immature bonobos show in general more signs of distress, our data suggest that the weaning period itself is more traumatic for chimpanzees. 相似文献
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Patrizia Potì 《International journal of primatology》1996,17(1):101-116
I report spontaneous spatial object grouping in five chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)ranging from 1 to 4 years of age. I recorded subjects' spontaneous interactions with groups of objects, noting the spatial
relations in the groupings and the constructive processes that the subjects adopted. Though one subject developed vertical
stacks, none of them realized horizontal alignments or spatial correspondences between groups. All subjects showed consistent
trends in their constructive processes toward manipulating objects in relation to the body: they increasingly manipulated
objects globally, that is to say, they moved or held objects together with the same part of the body. They also increasingly
placed objects on the body or in correspondence to their symmetrical body parts. The increasing importance assigned by chimpanzees
to body- object relations over object- object relations contrasts with human developmental trends in the domain of manipulative
space. 相似文献
10.
Four chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) monitored the movement of hidden items in arrays of opaque cups. A chocolate candy was hidden in an array of four cups and temporarily presented paper markers indicated the location of the candy (which otherwise was not visible). These markers were either non-symbolic or symbolic (lexigram) stimuli that in other contexts acted as a label for the hidden candy, and the array was either rotated 180° after the marker was removed or the array remained in the same location. For three of four chimpanzees, performance was better than chance in all conditions and there was no effect of the type of marker. These experiments indicate that chimpanzees can track the movement of a hidden item in an array of identical cups even when they never see the item itself, but only see a temporarily presented marker for the location of that item. However, there was no benefit to the use of symbolic as opposed to non-symbolic stimuli in this performance. 相似文献
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Studies investigating relationships between social parameters (such as dominance rank, rates of aggressive and sexual behaviors) and androgen (particularly, testosterone) levels in male primates have yielded inconsistent results. In the present study, we address the relationship between androgens, male dominance rank and rank-associated behaviors in two groups of captive chimpanzees, a species characterized by a pronounced dominance hierarchy between adult males. By combining behavioral observations with urinary testosterone (T) measurements, we found that the differences in T concentrations between males were small and not obviously related to their dominance rank. T levels were not related to the rates of initiated aggression and copulatory behavior, but a significant negative relationship between male T level and the rates of strong aggression received was apparent. Our findings, combined with those of others, suggest that any relationship between dominance rank and T depends upon the extent to which individual rank-associated behaviors (e.g. aggressive/sexual) are themselves related to T. 相似文献
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Savanna chimpanzees are useful as referential models for early hominins, and here potential differences between chimpanzee and early hominin ecology is the focus. Whereas chimpanzees inhabit only a handful of modern African savannas, there is evidence that early hominins occupied relatively more open and arid savannas than those in which chimpanzees live. In order to help expand potential models of early hominin palaeoecology beyond savanna chimpanzee-like scenarios, and to provide a basis for future modeling and testing of actual hominin diets, this study compares the types of plant foods available in modern semi-arid savannas of northern Tanzania to plant foods at savanna chimpanzee sites. The semi-arid savannas are not occupied by modern chimpanzees, but are potentially similar to environments occupied by some early hominins. Compared to savanna chimpanzee habitats, the northern Tanzania semi-arid savanna has a lower density and fewer species of trees that produce fleshy fruits. Additionally, the most abundant potential hominin plant foods are seasonally available Acacia seeds/pods and flowers, grass seeds, and the underground parts of marsh plants, as evidenced by vegetation surveys and by studies of the diets of baboons that forage in similar areas. The information from this study should be useful for framing hypotheses about hominin diets for sites with palaeoenvironmental contexts similar to those of the northern Tanzania semi-arid savannas and for contextualising tests of actual hominin diets (e.g., those based on dental microwear or isotopes). 相似文献
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Suehisa Kuroda Shigeru Suzuki Tomoaki Nishihara 《Primates; journal of primatology》1996,37(3):253-259
Predatory behavior ofPan t. troglodytes in the Ndoki Forest was confirmed by both direct observation and fecal evidence. Eight out of 214 fecal samples (3.7%), collected
during 16 months, contained vertebrate tissue. The prey species were a terrestrial bird, two monkey species including crowned
guenon, a squirrel, and probably a pangolin. This rate suggested that predation in the Ndoki population can occur as frequently
as in other populations. Chimpanzees were also directly observed to eat an infant crowned guenon, a hornbill, and a duiker.
An adult female used a branch apparently in an attempt to drive out a hornbill from its nest hole, though no bird was observed
to come out. Chimpanzees were attracted to meat, and were observed begging and sharing over the meat. Predatory behavior is
common toPan andHomo, but not toGorilla, implying that the common ancestor of the former two genera acquired this behavior after separating from gorillas. 相似文献
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Bronwyn A. Houlden Lynn Woodworth Karen Humphrey 《Primates; journal of primatology》1997,38(3):341-347
DNA “fingerprinting” using polymorphic (CA)-repeat microsatellite markers was used to quantify the level of genetic variation
present in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in the Australasian region. These markers were also used to determine the paternity of chimpanzees born at Taronga Zoo over
a 20-year period. The results suggested that the dominant male in the colony was responsible for siring most, but not all,
of the offspring. Where the dominant male was excluded from paternity, the sire was identifiable if all candidate males were
available for typing. This enabled us to prove the captive origin of offspring born in the colony during this period. Thus,
microsatellite analysis was a useful tool for assignment of familial relationships and improving genetic management of breeding
colonies. 相似文献
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The aim of the study was to monitor the social development of infant and juvenile common chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) through their play behaviour at Taronga Zoo in Sydney in order to examine the possible effects of captivity (such as limited
opportunities to play) on social development. Play behaviour was observed by focal animal sampling to determine individual
differences, and their relationship to age, sex, and relatedness of the subjects. Analysis revealed marked individual variations
in social, solitary, and object play behaviours indicative of a relatively well-balanced social and physical environment.
Subjects showed a marked preference for play-partners of a different age compared to their own, and initiated interactions
with similar frequency with members of both sexes. Many social-play dyads consisted of related individuals, and familiarity
with prospective play-mates was the most decisive factor in social interactions. 相似文献
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Kay H. Farmer Hannah M. Buchanan-Smith Aliette Jamart 《International journal of primatology》2006,27(3):747-765
As wild primate populations decline, numbers of orphaned primates, sanctuaries, and attempts to release primates back to the natural environment increase. Release projects frequently are poorly documented despite IUCN guidelines recommending post-release monitoring and systematic data collection as central to the process. Since 1996, Habitat Ecologique et Liberté des Primates (HELP) has been releasing wild-born orphaned chimpanzees into natural habitat in the Conkouati-Douli National Park, Republic of Congo. HELP developed a post-release monitoring system as an integral component. We present activity budgets and diet of released chimpanzees, and compared them to those of wild chimpanzee, as primary indicators of successful release. Feeding, moving, and resting dominated activity budgets, reflecting the overall patterns in wild populations. Diet was diverse and dominated by fruit, and the released chimpanzees showed specialization on a smaller number of species, as in many wild communities. The high survival rates of the chimpanzees and overall success of the release program are attributed to careful planning and post-release support facilitated via the monitoring process. Systematic post-release data collection monitoring has confirmed that wild-born chimpanzees can adjust behaviorally and nutritionally to the wild. Survival statistics of the reintroduced chimpanzees—confirmed 56%, possible 88%— reflect the behavioral adaptability.2nd revision March 11, 2005An erratum to this article can be found at 相似文献
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We investigated the level of cognitive development of two chimpanzee infants, both tested at 14 and 19 months of age, within the Piagetian framework of cognitive development. We administered tasks related to the understanding of object-concept—visible displacement tasks-and the operation of physical causality—the support problem-and observed responses similar to those of human infants. Both subjects reached stage 5 object-concept when they were 19 months of age: only at this time, in fact, were chimpanzees able to find the object wherever it was hidden. Stage 4 errors still characterized infants' performance when they were 14 months old. However, only one of the 19-month-old subjects was able to solve the support problem: she ignored the support when the goal object did not rest on it, showing that the understood the necessity of spatial contact between the target and the intermediary object. On the contrary, the other subject was not proficient in such a task because he drew the support even when the reward was placed beside it. At 19 months of age its level of causality still remained characteristic of the fourth stage. 相似文献
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T Geissmann 《Journal of medical primatology》1990,19(5):467-478
This paper describes the incidence of multiple births in the Yerkes Chimpanzee colony for a period of about 63 years. Pedigrees are presented for all multiple births. They demonstrate the recurrence of twins in relatively few family lines which can be traced back to a small number of ancestors. The findings suggest that twinning is a family trait in chimpanzees and they support the hypothesis that the incidence of multiple births is genetically influenced in this colony. In addition, a relatively high level of inbreeding may have enhanced the incidence of multiple births in these family lines. Similar findings are known from human populations. 相似文献
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Patrizia Potì 《International journal of primatology》1997,18(1):33-59
I investigated sensorimotor precursors of logicoarithmetic operations involved in spontaneous object grouping of five common chimpanzees aged 1 to 4 years. I considered three basic logical relations between objects or sets of objects: equivalence, order, and reversibility relations. Chimpanzees introduced equivalence and order relations within sets of objects as well as between sets. They showed a higher level of logical organization than monkeys do. Compared to human infants, chimpanzees manifested a specific difference and a specific delay. First, chimpanzees only partially mapped the logical properties of their action organization on sets of objects. For example, chimpanzees' simultaneous acts on two sets of objects, though increasing with age, almost never resulted in spatial correspondences between the sets. Secondly, they showed a specific delay in that they produced scarcely any form of reversibility. 相似文献
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Allometric methods and theory derived from principles of relative growth provide new and powerful approaches to an understanding
of the nature and development of sexual dimorphism among living primates. The Frankfurt collection of Liberian chimpanzee
skulls and mandibles provides a large skeletal sample from a single natural population of wild shot animals, including individuals
of all ages and both sexes, and allows investigation of allometric and heterochronic patterns of sexual dimorphism. Univariate,
bivariate, and multivariate analyses are utilized in this study in order to ascertain the ontogenetic nature of male-female
differences in the skull of the Liberian chimpanzee. The results of univariate and multivariate analyses indicate that, while
overall levels of sexual dimorphism in the chimpanzee skull are small, the greatest differences are in dimensions of the viscerocranium,
while neurocranial dimensions and orbital size tend to be less dimorphic. Bivariate regressions of 21 cranial variables against
basicranial length document positive allometry in many facial and mandibular dimensions, and isometry or negative allometry
for most neurocranial dimensions. The data confirm previous work in chimpanzees and other anthropoid primates suggesting that
males and females are “ontogenetically scaled” in most cranial traits. That is, males and females share the same cranial growth
trajectories, although ending up at different points. Both rate and time hypermorphosis are suggested as underlying causes
of ontogenetic scaling in the Liberian chimpanzee. 相似文献