Species - Chimpanzee

Chimpanzee responses to the death of a group member have rarely been observed in the wild and most instances involve infant deaths. One of the very few detailed accounts of a group's response to the death of an adult community member is from Gombe National Park, Tanzania, where Teleki [Folia Primatologica 20:81-94, 1973] observed the responses of 16 chimpanzees to an accidental death, none of whom touched the body.

01/01/2012
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The ability to distinguish actions and effects caused by oneself from events occurring in the external environment is a fundamental aspect of human cognition. Underlying such distinctions, self-monitoring processes are often assumed, in which predicted events accompanied by one's own volitional action are compared with actual events observed in the external environment. Although many studies have examined the absence or presence of a certain type of self-recognition (i.e. mirror self-recognition) in non-human animals, the underlying cognitive mechanisms remain unclear. Here, we provide, to our knowledge, the first behavioural evidence that chimpanzees can perform self/other distinction for external events on the basis of self-monitoring processes.

22/12/2011
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Global Post| Laura Burke | November 2011

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast: On a humid October day in a tropical forest in the middle of Abidjan, members of Ymako Theatri theater group, dressed in black suits, jump to the beat of drums and sing: "Chimpan-zees are our cou-sins! Let’s not eat them any-more! Let’s not kill them any-more!"

The rhythm is catchy and the performers are energized, singing: "We must protect the forest for the future of our children!"

Today, like always, the audience is rapt.

12/11/2011
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Edwin Musoni

A scientific team managing Gishwati Forest has disclosed that Rwanda's endangered chimpanzees increased by 54 percent in the last two and half years.

According to a report by Great Ape Trust, in 2008, there were only 13 apes and since then, seven baby chimpanzees were born.

Recently, researchers with the Gishwati Area Conservation Programme (GACP) identified a baby chimpanzee born to Gihozo, a prominent female in the Gishwati ape population.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201107251861.html

23/07/2011
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New plan will increase long term survival of Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee

July 2011: The world's most endangered subspecies of chimpanzee has had a much needed shot in the arm, with a newly released action plan to bolster numbers of this critically endangered great ape.

Known as the as the Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee, the subspecies, first identified in 1997, is restricted to pockets of forested habitat in both nations. Between 3,500 and 9,000 remain in the wild clinging to a region of high human population density and subject to habitat destruction, fragmentation, and poaching. These factors have led to the extinction of the chimp across much of its former range.

http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/chimp-endangered.html#cr

22/07/2011
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By Tansa Moussa,

 YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Cameroon and Nigeria plan to enlarge their protected forest areas and boost conservation programmes to save a rare chimpanzee subspecies from going extinct because of hunting and habitat destruction.

 Scientists say the Nigeria-Cameroon subspecies is amongst the most endangered of the chimpanzees, humanity's closest living relative, which lives only in Africa.

http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE75N02120110624

24/06/2011
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