The Fongoli savanna in southeast Senegal offers a unique ecosystem. Temperatures can rise above 110 degrees Fahrenheit with brush fires sweeping across. The chimpanzees who live on these savannas weren't well understood. Erin Wessling at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology studied these chimpanzees. She compared these chimps to forest chimpanzees. The Fongoli savanna... Continue Reading →
Wild Chimps Know What Fire Is … Kinda.
Jill Pruetz, an ISU associate professor of anthropology, has been studying savanna chimpanzees at her Fongoli research site in Senegal since 2001. Her new study documents how the chimps understand the fire they encounter in the region. Photo by Bob Elbert, ISU News Service. A new study by Iowa State University anthropologist Jill Pruetz suggests... Continue Reading →
Frans Lanting on the Fongoli Spear Hunting Chimps
It has been far too long since I've updated this blog. I apologize, there certainly has not been a lack of material to share -- just a lack of time and overemphasis on Anthropology.net, which is totally my bad, I don't intend to neglect this site again. Anyways, photographer Frans Lanting recently travelled to take... Continue Reading →
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