Sentences with phrase «wild chimpanzee populations»

The research presented in this video aims at understanding the cultures of wild chimpanzee populations in several African countries and how they differ from each other.

Not exact matches

The finding was bad enough: During the last two decades, the population of wild chimpanzees and gorillas in the West African nations of Gabon and the Republic of the Congo has declined by more than half.

Teleki calculates that for every infant that survives a year at the final overseas destination, 10 chimpanzees die in transit or on arrival, or are killed in the wild by poachers — small wonder that conservationists are alarmed at the impact continued commercial exploitation will have on wild populations whose habitats are being progressively destroyed.

Until recently, there were six known ape Laverania species that exhibited strict host specificity (association with a single host species) in wild populations — three in chimpanzees and three in western gorillas.

Since Christophe Boesch began studying wild chimpanzees in the Taï forest in Côte d'Ivoire in 1979, the animals» populations have declined by more than two - thirds.

The Dutch photographer and filmmaker Hugo van Lawick was sent to document Jane Goodall's first establishment of contact with the chimpanzee population, resulting in the enormously popular Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees, the second film ever produced by National Geographic.