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    Long-Term Studies on Wild Bonobos at Wamba, Luo Scientific Reserve, D. R. Congo: Towards the Understanding of Female Life History in a Male-Philopatric Species

    Long-term studies on wild bonobos began at Wamba, in the current Luo Scientific Reserve, in 1973. Except for several interruptions due to political instability and civil war, we have been conducting studies of...

    Takeshi Furuichi, Gen’ichi Idani, Hiroshi Ihobe in Long-Term Field Studies of Primates (2012)

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    Longitudinal Structure of a Unit-group of Bonobos: Male Philopatry and Possible Fusion of Unit-groups

    Bonobos and chimpanzees have a male-philopatric social structure (Nishida 1979, Itani 1985, Goodall 1986, Wrangham 1986, Pusey and Packer 1987, Kano 1992, Wallis 1997, Reynolds 2005, Furuichi 2006). Demographi...

    Chie Hashimoto, Yasuko Tashiro, Emi Hibino, Mbangi Mulavwa, Kumugo Yangozene in The Bonobos (2008)

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    Seasonal Changes in Fruit Production and Party Size of Bonobos at Wamba

    Because chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) have a unique fission-fusion social structure, many researchers have investigated the nature of foraging parties. They have reported that chimpanzees form foraging parties wh...

    Mbangi Mulavwa, Takeshi Furuichi, Kumugo Yangozene, Mikwaya Yamba-Yamba in The Bonobos (2008)

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    Relationships among Fruit Abundance, Ranging Rate, and Party Size and Composition of Bonobos at Wamba

    As close relatives, chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and bonobos (Pan paniscus) share some important characteristics in their social structure. Both species form male philopatric unit-groups, with males remain in th...

    Takeshi Furuichi, Mbangi Mulavwa, Kumugo Yangozene, Mikwaya Yamba-Yamba in The Bonobos (2008)