We have a new chimp matching miniproject coming next week in collaboration with Panthera Cats with photos from Niokolo Koba National Park
read more about Panthera’s work here: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/inside-the-race-to-save-west-africas-endangered-lions
We’ll start on November 21st and will post the link then!
Our amazing scimod Nuria's kids, Laura and Nora, were interviewed about chimpandsee.org ! Thanks girls for taking the time to talk about your time with us and to Süddeutsche Zeitung for featuring our project 🙂
(English translation:
"We support the project Chimp&See. For this you have to watch videos from African forests on a website. They come from cameras that react to movements. They make so many videos that the researchers can't analyze everything on their own. The cameras are already triggered when a branch shakes or a bird flies across the frame. On many videos, nothing can be seen, but sometimes you can see chimpanzees. Then you have to describe how many animals can be seen and what they are doing. Baby chimpanzees are especially cute. Or when you can watch an ape cracking a nut or using a stone as a tool." )
So happy that Ozouga Chimps ' "Thea" of the Rekambo community in Loango National Park, Gabon made the cover of Cell Press Cell Genomics and is the ambassador for our recent paper on chimpanzee population histories "Fontsere et al (2022) Population dynamics and genetic connectivity in recent chimpanzee history. Cell Genomics DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xgen.2022.100133"
Thank you to Roland Hilgartner Wildlife Photographer and Author for generously allowing the use of his photo!
Welcome to "Tranquil Sea", our collaborative site with WCS_Nigeria in the #MbeMountains! Home of #CrossRiverGorillas , Nigeria-Cameroon Chimpanzees & more!
Get started at http://ChimpandSee.org or check out our intro post at https://zooniverse.org/projects/sassydumbledore/chimp-and-see/talk/2279/2371328
The PanAf has a new paper out examing the microbiomes of chimpanzees across their range!
Genetics/geography are correlated with prokaryotic and parasite community dissimilarity. When controlling for these, vegetation also has an influence on prokaryotic community composition.
We also found some site-specific differences in prokaryote community composition (though not in Western chimps).
We discuss how regional tool use for resource extraction might be influencing site-specific differences & compare the patterns observed in chimps to those in humans.
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