Search Results - "Hernandez‐Aguilar, R. Adriana"
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Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in savanna landscapes
Published in Evolutionary anthropology (01-11-2021)“…Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) are the only great apes that inhabit hot, dry, and open savannas. We review the environmental pressures of savannas on…”
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Environment shapes sleep patterns in a wild nocturnal primate
Published in Scientific reports (09-07-2019)“…Among primates, the suborder Haplorhini is considered to have evolved a consolidated monophasic sleep pattern, with diurnal species requiring a shorter sleep…”
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Chimpanzee extractive foraging with excavating tools: Experimental modeling of the origins of human technology
Published in PloS one (15-05-2019)“…It is hypothesized that tool-assisted excavation of plant underground storage organs (USOs) played an adaptive role in hominin evolution and was also once…”
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Flexibility in positional behavior, strata use, and substrate utilization among Bale monkeys (Chlorocebus djamdjamensis) in response to habitat fragmentation and degradation
Published in American journal of primatology (01-05-2018)“…Studies of the effects of habitat fragmentation and degradation on primate positional behavior, strata use, and substrate utilization offer valuable insights…”
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"An ape's view of the Oldowan" revisited
Published in Evolutionary anthropology (01-09-2011)“…In 1989, Wynn and McGrew published an explicit comparison between Oldowan technology and what was then known of chimpanzee technology.1 They compared the range…”
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Chimpanzee nesting patterns in savanna habitat: Environmental influences and preferences
Published in American journal of primatology (01-10-2013)“…Data on chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) nesting patterns were collected in Issa, Ugalla, western Tanzania. Ugalla is one of the driest, most open, and seasonal…”
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Open‐access platform to synthesize knowledge of ape conservation across sites
Published in American journal of primatology (01-01-2021)“…Despite the large body of literature on ape conservation, much of the data needed for evidence‐based conservation decision‐making is still not readily…”
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Savanna chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) crop feeding at Dindefelo, Senegal: challenges and implications for conservation
Published in Primates (01-07-2024)“…Chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes ) are categorized as Endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, and habitat loss due to conversion of land…”
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Experimental investigation of orangutans' lithic percussive and sharp stone tool behaviours
Published in PloS one (16-02-2022)“…Early stone tools, and in particular sharp stone tools, arguably represent one of the most important technological milestones in human evolution. The…”
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Chimpanzee nest distribution and site reuse in a dry habitat: implications for early hominin ranging
Published in Journal of human evolution (01-10-2009)“…This paper reports on a 20-month study of chimpanzee nesting patterns in Issa, Ugalla, western Tanzania. Ugalla is one of the driest, most open, and seasonal…”
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Multidrug-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae Clones from Wild Chimpanzees and Termites in Senegal
Published in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy (17-08-2021)“…Antibiotic resistance genes exist naturally in various environments far from human usage. Here, we investigated multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae, a…”
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Deciding Where to Sleep: Spatial Levels of Nesting Selection in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) Living in Savanna at Issa, Tanzania
Published in International journal of primatology (01-12-2020)“…To understand how animals select resources we need to analyze selection at different spatial levels or scales in the habitat. We investigated which physical…”
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New range record for the African brush‐tailed porcupine, Atherurus africanus, in southeastern Senegal and northern Guinea
Published in African journal of ecology (01-06-2023)“…The African brush‐tailed porcupine (Atherurus africanus) is a rodent common from West to East Africa. The last IUCN assessment stated that its presence is…”
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Bone-related behaviours of captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) during two excavating experiments
Published in Primates (01-01-2023)“…After stone tools, bone tools are the most abundant artefact type in the Early Pleistocene archaeological record. That said, they are still relatively scarce,…”
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The diet of open-habitat chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in the Issa valley, western Tanzania
Published in Journal of human evolution (01-11-2017)“…Comparative data on the diets of extant primates inform hypotheses about hominin resource use. Historically, data describing chimpanzee diets stem primarily…”
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Savanna chimpanzees use tools to harvest the underground storage organs of plants
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (04-12-2007)“…It has been hypothesized that plant underground storage organs (USOs) played key roles in the initial hominin colonization of savanna habitats, the development…”
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Impacts of habitat loss and fragmentation on the activity budget, ranging ecology and habitat use of Bale monkeys (Chlorocebus djamdjamensis) in the southern Ethiopian Highlands
Published in American journal of primatology (01-07-2017)“…Understanding the extent to which primates in forest fragments can adjust behaviorally and ecologically to changes caused by deforestation is essential to…”
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Chimpanzee vertebrate consumption: Savanna and forest chimpanzees compared
Published in Journal of human evolution (01-11-2017)“…There is broad consensus among paleoanthropologists that meat-eating played a key role in the evolution of Homo, but the details of where, when, and why are…”
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Population genetic structure and evolutionary history of Bale monkeys (Chlorocebus djamdjamensis) in the southern Ethiopian Highlands
Published in BMC evolutionary biology (10-07-2018)“…Species with a restricted geographic distribution, and highly specialized habitat and dietary requirements, are particularly vulnerable to extinction. The Bale…”
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Dietary flexibility of Bale monkeys (Chlorocebus djamdjamensis) in southern Ethiopia: effects of habitat degradation and life in fragments
Published in BMC ecology (06-02-2018)“…Understanding the effects of habitat modification on the feeding strategies of threatened species is essential to designing effective conservation management…”
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