Seasonal variations in temperature, rainfall and resource availability are ubiquitous and can
exert strong pressures on population dynamics. Infectious diseases provide some of the best …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the current knowledge of competition and
cooperation in wild chimpanzees. It explicitly focuses on recent field studies that shed new …

For epidemiologists, evolutionary biologists, and health-care professionals, real-time and
predictive modeling of infectious disease is of growing importance. This book provides a …

In The Hadza, Frank Marlowe provides a quantitative ethnography of one of the last
remaining societies of hunter-gatherers in the world. The Hadza, who inhabit an area of East …

Unlike humans, who came down from the trees and developed bipedal locomotion,
chimpanzees have remained in the original habitat of our ancestors: the tropical rainforests …

To balance advantages and disadvantages of group living, some species have fission-
fusion social systems in which members of the same group form frequently changing …

Adjusting communication to take into account information available to one's audience is
routine in humans but is assumed absent in other animals, representing a recent …

Fission–fusion social systems, in which members of a social community form frequently
changing subgroups, occur in a number of mammalian taxa. Such systems are assumed to …

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) are ecologically flexible omnivores with broad diets
comprising many plant and animal foods, although they mostly eat fruit (including figs). Like …

Differences in party size and cohesiveness among females have been primary topics in
socio-ecological comparisons of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and bonobos (Pan …