Recent Wildlife Research Studies at Gombe

The mission of Gombe Stream Research Centre is to operate a world-class research station to advance basic science, support conservation & train Tanzanian scientists.

Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV) was discovered to be the precursor of HIV by Dr Hahn from Alabahma University. She now continues the non-invasive study on chimps, collecting faces from which virus is extracted.

Collaborating with scientists from Lincoln Park Zoo they have found that Gombe chimpanzees carry a version of SIV named SIV cpz found in 18% of Gombe chimps . Generally SIV variants were thought not to affect the health of simians, however observations have recently shown that the virus may be negatively impacting the health of the chimpanzee mortality, fertility and immune system.

Reproduction

"The Influence of Dominance Rank on the Reproductive Success of Female Chimpanzees"

Anne Pusey, Jennifer Williams & Jane Goodall. 1997.
SCIENCE 277: 828-831

Finds that high-ranking females experience greater success at reproduction than lower ranking females.

"Reproductive constraints on aggressive competition in female baboons"

Craig Packer, D.A. Collins, A. Sindimwo & J. Goodall. 1995.
NATURE 373: 60-63

A comparable analysis of the Gombe baboon females shows that high-rankers generally experience better breeding success, but there is a surprising finding that some of them suffer reproductive impairment, or more miscarriages.

Culture

"Sex differences in learning in chimpanzees."

Lonsdorf, E. V., Lynn E. Eberly, Anne E. Pusey (2004).
NATURE 428 (15 April 2004): 715-716.

Shows sex-based differences in tool-use learning.

"Cultures in chimpanzees"

A. Whiten, J. Goodall, W.C. McGrew, T. Nishida, V. Reynolds, Y. Sugiyama, C.E.G. Tutin, R.W. Wrangham & C. Boesch (1999).
NATURE 399: 682-685

A comparison of different chimpanzee populations.

"Manual laterality in anvil use: wild chimpanzees cracking Strychnos fruits"

W.C. McGrew, L.F. Marchant, R.W. Wrangham & H. Klein. 1999.
LATERALITY 4 (1): 79-87.

Disease

"SIVcpz in wild chimpanzees."

Santiago, M. L., C. M. Rodenburg, S. Kamenya, F. Bibollet-Ruche, F. Gao, E. Bailes, S. Meleth, S. Soong, J. M. Kilby, Z. Moldoveanu, B. Fahey, M. Muller, A. Ayouba, E. Nerrienet, H. M. McClure, J. L. Heeney, A. E. Pusey, D. A. Collins, C. Boesch, R. W. Wrangham, J. Goodall, P. M. Sharp, G. M. Shaw and B. H. Hahn (2002).
SCIENCE 295: 465.

"Endemic foci of simian immunodeficiency virus infection in wild-living eastern chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii)."

Santiago, M. L., M. Lukasik, S. Kamenya, Y. Li, F. Bibollet-Ruche, E. Bailes, M. N. Muller, M. Emery, D. A. Goldenberg, J. S. Lwanga, A. Ayouba, E. Nerrienet, H. M. McClure, J. L. Heeney, D. P. Watts, A. E. Pusey, D. A. Collins, R. W. Wrangham, J. Goodall, J. F. Y. Brookfield, P. M. Sharp, G. M. Shaw and B. H. Hahn (2003).
JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY 77: 7545-7562.

"Amplification of a complete simian immunodeficiency virus genome from fecal RNA of a wild chimpanzee."

Santiago, M. L., F. Bibollet-Ruche, E. Bailes, S. Kamenya, M. N. Muller, M. Lukasik, A. E. Pusey, D. A. Collins, R. W. Wrangham, J. Goodall, G. M. Shaw, P. M. Sharp and B. H. Hahn (2003).
JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY 77: 2233-2242.

Meat-Eating

Chimpanzee and Red Colobus. The ecology of predator and prey

Craig B. Stanford, 1998.
Harvard University Press.

The Hunting Apes

Craig Stanford, 1999.
Princeton University Press ISBN 0691011605

The Chimpanzees of the Tai Forest: Behavioural Ecology and Evolution

C. Boesch & H. Boesch-Achermann, 2000.
Oxford University Press ISBN 0198505078.

Paternity

"Kin selection, social structure, gene flow, and the evolution of chimpanzees"

Phillip A. Morin, James J Moore, Ranajit Chakraborty, Li Jin, Jane Goodall & David S. Woodruff (1994).
SCIENCE 265: 1193-1201.

A paper reporting that DNA analysis was able to identify the fathers of two of the Gombe chimp infants.

"Noninvasive paternity assignment in Gombe chimpanzees."

Constable, J. L., M. V. Ashley and J. Goodall (2001).
MOLECULAR ECOLOGY 10(5): 1279-1300.

"Nuclear DNA from primate dung."

Constable, J. L., C. Packer, A. Collins and A. E. Pusey (1995).
NATURE 373: 393.

Other

"Female competition and male territorial behavior influence female chimpanzees' ranging patterns."

Williams, J. M., A. E. Pusey, J. V. Carlis, B. P. Farm and J. Goodall (2002).
ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR 63(2): 347-360.

"Intergroup relations in chimpanzees."

Wilson, M. L. and R. W. Wrangham (2003).
ANNUAL REVIEW OF ANTHROPOLOGY W. H. Durham. Palo Alto, CA, Annual Reviews Inc. 32: 363-92.

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