Exploring Savanna Chimpanzee Ecology and Prospects for Long-term Research in Senegal

探索稀树草原黑猩猩生态和塞内加尔长期研究前景

• 批准号: 0122518
• 负责人: Jill Pruetz
• 金额: $ 1.67万
• 依托单位: Iowa State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-08-01 至 2002-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0122518&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Exploring; Savanna; Chimpanzee; Ecology; Prospects

This high risk project is designed to assess the feasibility of habituating a new population of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) to the presence of human researchers in southeastern Senegal. This population of savanna chimpanzees inhabits perhaps the hottest, driest, and most open habitat used by chimpanzees today - a habitat similar to the one in which early humans are thought to have evolved. A long-term goal of the project is to examine savanna chimpanzee behavior and ecology in comparison to chimpanzees at forested sites. In Senegal, humans and chimpanzees co-exist in some areas, and chimpanzees here are used to human presence. In addition to monitoring the process of habituating chimpanzees to the presence of human researchers, another immediate goal is to understand the success of the chimpanzee population in areas inhabited by humans. The findings can be applied to the conservation of chimpanzees elsewhere. As human populations continue to increase across Africa, understanding how humans and chimpanzees can peacefully co-exist will be a major contribution to conservation biology. Understanding the ecology of savanna chimpanzees can help shed light on the behavioral ecology of humans who used similar environments, and this project initiates the difficult habituation process necessary to study these endangered primates.

这个高风险项目旨在评估使新的黑猩猩种群适应塞内加尔东南部人类研究人员存在的可行性。 这群热带草原黑猩猩居住的地方可能是黑猩猩目前最热、最干燥、最开阔的栖息地 一个与早期人类进化的环境相似的环境。 该项目的一个长期目标是研究草原黑猩猩的行为和生态，并与森林地区的黑猩猩进行比较。 在塞内加尔，人类和黑猩猩在某些地区共存，这里的黑猩猩已经习惯了人类的存在。 除了监测黑猩猩适应人类研究人员存在的过程外，另一个直接目标是了解黑猩猩种群在人类居住区的成功。 这些发现可以应用于其他地方的黑猩猩保护。 随着非洲人口的不断增加，了解人类和黑猩猩如何和平共处将是对保护生物学的重大贡献。 了解草原黑猩猩的生态学可以帮助了解使用类似环境的人类的行为生态学，这个项目启动了研究这些濒危灵长类动物所必需的艰难的习惯化过程。