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Predation on a monkey by savanna chimpanzees at Fongoli, Senegal
PAN Africa News
  • M. Gašperšič, Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis
  • Jill D. Pruetz, Iowa State University
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Article
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Published Version
Publication Date
12-1-2004
Abstract
Although forest-living chimpanzees commonly include vertebrate prey such as monkeys in their diet¹, savanna chimpanzees have been reported only to eat prosimians². New evidence from the recently-established Fongoli study site in Senegal suggests that chimpanzees there hunt green monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops sabeus). The Fongoli community ranges over an area of at least 63 km² and based on fecal analyses, consumes a species of bushbaby found here probably Galago senegalensis.
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This is an article from PAN Africa News 11 (2004): 8. Posted with permission.

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Citation Information
M. Gašperšič and Jill D. Pruetz. "Predation on a monkey by savanna chimpanzees at Fongoli, Senegal" PAN Africa News Vol. 11 Iss. 2 (2004) p. 8 - 10
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jill-pruetz/15/