Predation on a monkey by savanna chimpanzees at Fongoli, Senegal
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The Department of Anthropology seeks to teach students what it means to be human by examining the four sub-disciplines of anthropology: cultural anthropology, archaeology, linguistic anthropology, and biological anthropology. This prepares students for work in academia, research, or with government agencies, development organizations, museums, or private businesses and corporations.
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The Department of Anthropology was formed in 1991 as a result of the division of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.
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1991-present
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- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (parent college)
- Department of Sociology and Anthropology (predecessor)
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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.