How Infighting Turns Toxic for Chimpanzees
Power. Ambition. Jealousy. According to a new study, the same things that fuel deadly clashes in humans can also tear apart chimpanzees, our closest animal relatives.
From the Field: Joel Bray, Tanzania
Joel Bray, a graduate student at Arizona State University, is studying the development of male-male social relationships in chimpanzees at Gombe National Park, Tanzania.
Primate Tales: Edgar and the Appearance of Pyrrhic Victory in Biology
For more than four years, the alpha male in the Mitumba community of chimpanzees in Gombe National Park has been Edgar, a ruler with an iron fist if ever there was one.
Grantee Spotlight: Sean Lee
How can chimpanzees and bonobos help us understand human evolution? Leakey Foundation grantee Sean Lee is collecting data on behavioral development and physical growth from wild populations of chimpanzees and bonobos in order to study how behavioral differences evolved in these species.
What Makes Us Human? Lessons from the Study of Wild Chimpanzees
In this talk, John Mitani will discuss how his 23-year study of an unusually large community of chimpanzees at Ngogo in Kibale National Park, Uganda, challenges our notions of what makes us human. Studies of the Ngogo chimpanzees indicate that the gap between them and us may be smaller than previously thought.