Habitual ground nesting in the Bugoma Forest chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii), Uganda.

Autor: Hobaiter C; Wild Minds Lab, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK.; Bugoma Primate Conservation Project, Bugoma Central Forest Reserve, Hoima, Uganda., Klein H; Wild Minds Lab, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK., Gruber T; Bugoma Primate Conservation Project, Bugoma Central Forest Reserve, Hoima, Uganda.; Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences and Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: American journal of primatology [Am J Primatol] 2024 Feb; Vol. 86 (2), pp. e23583. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Nov 30.
DOI: 10.1002/ajp.23583
Abstrakt: We report the presence of habitual ground nesting in a newly studied East African chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) population in the Bugoma Central Forest Reserve, Uganda. Across a 2-year period, we encountered 891 night nests, 189 of which were classified as ground nests, a rate of ~21%. We find no preliminary evidence of socio-ecological factors that would promote its use and highlight local factors, such as high incidence of forest disturbance due to poaching and logging, which appear to make its use disadvantageous. While further study is required to establish whether this behavior meets the strict criteria for nonhuman animal culture, we support the argument that the wider use of population and group-specific behavioral repertoires in flagship species, such as chimpanzees, offers a tool to promote the urgent conservation action needed to protect threatened ecosystems, including the Bugoma forest.
(© 2023 The Authors. American Journal of Primatology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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