Predation on a monkey by savanna chimpanzees at Fongoli, Senegal

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2004-12-01
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Gašperšič, M.
Pruetz, Jill
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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.

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