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Genotyping aids field study of unhabituated wild chimpanzees.
American journal of primatology - 1 Jun 2004
McGrew W C, Ensminger A L, Marchant L F, Pruetz J D, Vigilant L
Abstract excerpt
Prolonged habituation times for wild great apes delay the collection of behavioral and environmental data, sometimes for years. However, genotyping of noninvasively collected feces can provide useful socioecological information in the meantime. We tested this premise on an unhabituated wild population of western chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) at Mont Assirik, Senegal. Genotyping yielded information on...
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