Review
Zoology
Ammie K. Kalan, Robyn Nakano, Lindsey Warshawski
Summary: Evidence for cultural communication in nonhuman primates: This paper investigates cultural communication forms, such as gestures and vocal signals, in great apes, and discusses their relevance in illustrating the evolutionary continuity of human-like cultural attributes. The study highlights the need for further research in this area.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Meredith L. Gore, Robert Mwinyihali, Luc Mayet, Gavinet Duclair Makaya Baku-Bumb, Christian Plowman, Michelle Wieland
Summary: This research on urban wildmeat trafficking in the Republic of the Congo found heterogeneous actors involved in the illegal supply chain. Business sideliner and trading charity trafficker types were associated with the highest total risk to wildlife trafficking. Differentiating stakeholders involved in urban wildmeat trafficking can help clarify stages of illegal supply chains and identify new sectors for interventions and solutions.
GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Sok Hwan Lee, Shinya Yamamoto
Summary: This review redefines the concepts of dominance and prestige in humans and non-human animals, emphasizing the importance of prestige. Comparative studies with non-human animals, especially chimpanzees and bonobos, are essential for understanding the evolution of prestige and its impact on cooperation and cultural inheritance.
NEW IDEAS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Environmental Studies
Christine Ampumuza, Clemens Driessen
Summary: This paper explores the practice of gorilla habituation using Actor Network Theory and more-than-human geography, highlighting the role of gorillas as actors in habituation, conservation, and tourism development. It argues that gorillas are 'multiple' and actively participate in complex relations with other beings and their environment, co-producing various versions of the landscape and influencing conservation and development practices.
ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING E-NATURE AND SPACE
(2021)
Review
Zoology
Vernon Reynolds
Summary: This paper reflects on the significant moments in the author's career as a primatologist, discussing the intellectual conflicts encountered between anthropology, sociology, and zoology. It highlights the transition from theoretical to empirical research, with a focus on the importance of conservation.
Review
Psychology, Clinical
Anne Looijmans, Simon S. Spahrkas, Robbert Sanderman, Mariet Hagedoorn
Summary: This paper discusses the challenges of ethical procedures in international internet-based research, as well as how to deal with the geographical boundaries of RECs/IRBs and the worldwide, open character of such research.
INTERNET INTERVENTIONS-THE APPLICATION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN MENTAL AND BEHAVIOURAL HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Mathematics, Applied
Yuan Shen, Bo Tian, Dan-Yu Yang, Tian-Yu Zhou
Summary: Research on nonlinear lattice equations is active in various fields such as nonlinear optics, condensed matter physics, and plasma physics. This paper focuses on a three-field lattice system, which can be simplified into a modified Toda lattice system and a coupled lattice system. By utilizing a known Lax pair, an N-fold Darboux matrix is presented, and then an N-fold Darboux transformation is constructed for the system, where N is a positive integer. The first three conservation laws of the system are determined using the Lax pair. One-fold and two-fold solutions of the system are obtained by applying the N-fold Darboux transformation with N = 1 and 2. These solutions can describe discrete solitons. A combination of a kink-shaped discrete one soliton and a bell-shaped discrete one soliton is presented using the one-fold solutions, where the amplitude, shape, and velocity of the combination remain unchanged during propagation.
QUALITATIVE THEORY OF DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
(2023)
Article
Zoology
Jill D. Pruetz, Kelly Boyer Ontl, Elizabeth Cleaveland, Stacy Lindshield, Joshua Marshack, Erin G. Wessling
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY
(2017)
Article
Anthropology
Jill D. Pruetz
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
(2018)
Article
Anthropology
Erin G. Wessling, Hjalmar S. Kuehl, Roger Mundry, Tobias Deschner, Jill D. Pruetz
JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION
(2018)
Article
Ecology
Papa Ibnou Ndiaye, Stacy M. Lindshield, Landing Badji, Liliana Pacheco, Erin G. Wessling, Kelly M. Boyer, Jill D. Pruetz
AFRICAN JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE RESEARCH
(2018)
Article
Anthropology
Erin G. Wessling, Vicky M. Oelze, Henk Eshuis, Jill D. Pruetz, Hjalmar S. Kuehl
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
(2019)
Article
Zoology
Stacy Lindshield, Jessica M. Rothman, Sylvia Ortmann, Jill D. Pruetz
Summary: This study evaluated the potential nutritional determinants of two unusual foraging behaviors, fruit cracking with anvils and seed reingestion, by adult male western chimpanzees at Fongoli, Senegal during the baobab fruit season. The baobab fruit was found to be a high quality food source at Fongoli due to its nutritional balance, high energy content, and relative abundance in the environment, which may partly explain why chimpanzees use anvils and reingestion to access this mechanically challenging food.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Zoology
J. D. Pruetz, C. Greenlaw
Summary: A recent exchange between Pareja et al. and Urbani and Youlatos disputed the re-interpretation of primate species depicted in a Bronze Age fresco, ultimately showing stronger support for an African link. Despite the proposal of an Asian link, the historical context still favors the depiction of a primate species from the region.
Review
Anthropology
Stacy Lindshield, R. Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar, Amanda H. Korstjens, Linda F. Marchant, Victor Narat, Papa Ibnou Ndiaye, Hideshi Ogawa, Alex K. Piel, Jill D. Pruetz, Fiona A. Stewart, Kelly L. van Leeuwen, Erin G. Wessling, Midori Yoshikawa
Summary: The savanna environment presents challenges for chimpanzees, such as food and water scarcity, leading to behavioral adaptations like thermoregulatory behaviors. Savannas are generally associated with lower chimpanzee population densities and larger home ranges. The observed responses in chimpanzees to savanna landscapes offer pathways for future research on evolutionary processes and mechanisms.
EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY
(2021)
Review
Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science
Katie F. Gerstner, Jill D. Pruetz
Summary: Adequate nutrition is crucial for the well-being, survival, and reproductive fitness of individuals. Evaluating nutrition and health in wild animals, including great apes like chimpanzees, poses challenges. This study aims to review nutritional data on wild chimpanzee foods to better understand their diet, and to highlight key findings on nutrition and welfare related to their diet, shedding light on the importance of discussing welfare issues in wild chimpanzees for conservation and human-chimpanzee interaction settings.
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Anthropology
Debra R. Bolter, Noel Cameron, John Hawks, Steven E. Churchill, Lee Berger, Robin Bernstein, Julia C. Boughner, Sarah Elton, A. B. Leece, Patrick Mahoney, Keneiloe Molopyane, Tesla A. Monson, Jill Pruetz, Lawrence Schell, Kyra E. Stull, Christopher A. Wolfe
Summary: Lack of coherent methodology in studying ontogeny in extinct hominins. Increased recovery of immature hominin remains spanning multiple genera has prompted a better definition of this subfield within human evolution over the past two decades.
EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Anthropology
Angela Achorn, Stacy Lindshield, Papa Ibnou Ndiaye, Jeffrey Winking, Jill D. Pruetz
Summary: Through studying meat sharing among Fongoli chimpanzees in southeastern Senegal, we found that sibling relationships, direct reciprocity, and meat-for-mating opportunities are important factors influencing sharing behaviors.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Haoyu Chen, Stacy Lindshield, Papa Ibnou Ndiaye, Yaya Hamady Ndiaye, Jill D. Pruetz, Amy R. Reibman
Summary: This paper explores the effectiveness of few-shot learning in a real-world problem where labels are hard to obtain. By training an FSL network using large public datasets and only labeling a few images per new species, the paper achieves the classification of various animal species in the wild. The paper also discusses the challenges and constraints posed by uncurated data and evaluates the potential real-world usefulness of different FSL networks.
Article
Ecology
S. F. Sylla, P. Ndiaye, S. M. Lindshield, S. L. Bogart, J. D. Pruetz
Summary: The western chimpanzee is critically endangered due to population decline and habitat degradation. Niokolo Koba National Park is an important area for western chimpanzee conservation, but it has been listed as endangered since 2007. Previous studies on the park's chimpanzees have been sporadic, so this study focused on their nesting ecology and identified other mammals using camera traps.
APPLIED ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Erin G. Wessling, Tobias Deschner, Roger Mundry, Jill D. Pruetz, Roman M. Wittig, Hjalmar S. Kuehl
FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2018)
Article
Anthropology
Stacy Lindshield, Brent J. Danielson, Jessica M. Rothman, Jill D. Pruetz
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
(2017)
