Meat eating by nonhuman primates: a review and synthesis

DP Watts - Journal of human evolution, 2020 - Elsevier
Most nonhuman primates prey on vertebrates. Meat-eating, defined as ingestion of
vertebrate tissue, occurs in 12 families,≥ 39 genera, and≥ 89 species. It is most common in …

Chimpanzees and death

JR Anderson - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Information about responses to death in nonhuman primates is important for evolutionary
thanatology. This paper reviews the major causes of death in chimpanzees, and how these …

Wild chimpanzees show group differences in selection of agricultural crops

MR McLennan, KJ Hockings - Scientific Reports, 2014 - nature.com
The ability of wild animals to respond flexibly to anthropogenic environmental changes,
including agriculture, is critical to survival in human-impacted habitats. Understanding use of …

How ecocentrism and anthropocentrism influence human–environment relationships in a Kenyan biodiversity hotspot

J Rülke, M Rieckmann, JM Nzau, M Teucher - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Protecting nature and securing human livelihood needs are very conflicting especially in
biodiversity-rich areas of the Global South. The Taita Hills Cloud Forest (THCF) in Kenya …

The aggressive apes? Causes and contexts of great ape attacks on local persons

MR McLennan, KJ Hockings - Problematic wildlife: A cross-disciplinary …, 2016 - Springer
Attacks on humans by wildlife are a leading cause of 'human–wildlife conflict'and are on the
rise due to increasing human populations and competition over space and resources. Thus …

Pretense in chimpanzees

T Matsuzawa - Primates, 2020 - Springer
Chimpanzees, especially young ones, have an extraordinary photographic memory for
fleeting visual events (Inoue and Matsuzawa 2007). Humans may have lost this kind of …

Towards a unified generic framework to define and observe contacts between livestock and wildlife: a systematic review

SA Bacigalupo, LK Dixon, S Gubbins, AJ Kucharski… - PeerJ, 2020 - peerj.com
Wild animals are the source of many pathogens of livestock and humans. Concerns about
the potential transmission of economically important and zoonotic diseases from wildlife …

Patterns of Limb and Epaxial Muscle Activity During Walking in the Fire Salamander, Salamandra salamandra

SE Pierce, LP Lamas, L Pelligand… - Integrative …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Salamanders and newts (urodeles) are often used as a model system to elucidate the
evolution of tetrapod locomotion. Studies range from detailed descriptions of …

Problematic primate behaviour in agricultural landscapes: Chimpanzees as 'pests' and 'predators'

KJ Hockings, MR McLennan - … : Primate conservation in the 21st century, 2016 - Springer
Primate responses to anthropogenic habitat changes such as agriculture occur along a
gradient ranging from local extinction where primates are unable to cope with the changing …

Reaction to allospecific death and to an unanimated gorilla infant in wild western gorillas: insights into death recognition and prolonged maternal carrying

S Masi - Primates, 2020 - Springer
It is still unclear to what extent animals possess knowledge of death. Primates display a
large variety and often contradictory behaviors toward conspecific corpses, particularly those …