The chimpanzees of Bossou in Guinea, West Africa, form a unique community which
displays an exceptional array of tool use behaviors and behavioral adaptations to …

Appendicectomy is the most commonly performed emergency operation worldwide with a
lifetime risk of appendicitis of 8.6% in males and 6.7% in females (Flum and Koepsell 2002; …

This chapter reviews the extent of primate gummivory, identifies phylogentic patterns in the
degree of gummivory across primates, and examines overlap in the plant species whose …

Eight extracts from seven selected Cameroonian medicinal plants, traditionally used to treat
malaria and other protozoal diseases, were tested in vitro for their antiprotozoal activities …

Little information is available regarding the intestinal bacteria of chimpanzees in the wild,
due to the technical difficulties of studying intestinal bacteria in the field. In this study …

Gum is an unusual food that presents significant challenges to animals that feed on it. Gum
is limited in availability; trees generally secrete it only in response to damage. Gum is a β …

Fallback foods have been defined as resources for which a species has evolved specific
masticatory and digestive adaptations, and are consumed principally when preferred foods …

As part of our search of new apoptosis-inducing triterpenoid saponins from Cameroonian
Albizia genus, phytochemical investigation of the roots of Albizia zygia led to the isolation of …

We examined fiber fermentation capacity of captive chimpanzee fecal microflora from
animals (n= 2) eating low‐fiber diets (LFDs; 14% neutral detergent fiber (NDF) and 5% of …

Marmosets of the genus Callithrix are specialized in the consumption of tree exudates to
obtain essential nutritional resource by boring holes into bark with teeth. However …