Publications
in press
Gomes, C., Mundry, R. and Boesch, C. in press. Long-term reciprocation of grooming in wild West African chimpanzees. Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Inoue E, Inoue-Murayama M, Vigilant L, Takenaka O, Nishida T. (in press). Relatedness in wild chimpanzees: influence of paternity, male philopatry, and demographic factors. American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
2009
Lehmann, J, Boesch, C, (2009). Sociality of the dispersing sex: the nature of social bonds in West African female chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes. Animal Behaviour, 77(2): 377-387
Morozov VA, Leendertz FH, Junglen S, Boesch C, Pauli G, Ellerbrok H. (2009). Frequent foamy virus infection in free-living chimpanzees of the Tai National Park (Cote d'Ivoire). Journal of General Virology, 90: 500–506
2008
Boesch, C. (2008). Taking development and ecology seriously when comparing cognition: Reply to Tomasello and Call (2008). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 121
Boesch, C. (2008). Why do chimpanzees die in the forest? The challenges of understanding and controlling for wild ape health. American Journal of primatology, 70: 722-726.
Boesch, C., Crockford, C., Herbinger, I., Wittig, R., Moebius, Y. and Normand, E. (2008). Intergroup conflicts among chimpanzees in Taï National Park: lethal violence and the female perspective. American Journal of Primatology, 70: 1-14.
Boesch, C. (2008). Culture in evolution: toward an integration of chimpanzee and human culture. In Explaining Culture Scientifically (Ed. M. Brown). Pp. 37-54. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Boesch, C., Gnakouri, C., Marques, L., Nohon, G., Herbinger, I., Lauginie, F., Boesch, H., Kouamé, S., Traoré M. and Akindes, F. (2008). Chimpanzee conservation and theatre: a case study of an awareness project around the Taï National Park, Côte d’Ivoire. In Conservation in the 21st Century: Gorillas as a Case Study (Eds, Stoinski, T., Steklis, D. and Mehlman, P.). pp.128-135. New York: Springer Science and Business Media.
Boesch, C., Herbinger, I., Boesch, H., and. (2008). The contribution of long-term research by the Taï Chimpanzee Project to conservation. In Science and Conservation in African Forests: The Benefits of Long-term Research (Eds: Richard Wrangham and Elizabeth Ross). Pp. 184-200. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Campbell, G., Kuehl, H., N´Goran, P., Boesch, C. (2008). "Alarming decline of West African chimpanzees in Côte d’Ivoire." Current Biology, 18: R903-R904
Hauser, B.,Deschner, T., Boesch, C. (2008). "Development of a liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry method for the determination of 23 endogenous steroids in small quantities of primate urine." J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci 862: 100-12.
Hauser, B. Schulz, D. Boesch, C. & Deschner, T. (2008) Quantifying urinary testosterone levels of great apes – Problems with enzymatic hydrolysis using Helix pomatia juice. General and Comparative Endocrinology, 158: 77-86.
Kondgen, S., Kuhl, H., N'Goran P, K., Walsh, P. D., Schenk, S., Ernst, N., Biek, R.,
Formenty, P., Matz-Rensing, K., Schweiger, B., Junglen, S., Ellerbrok, H.,
Nitsche, A., Briese, T., Lipkin, W. I., Pauli, G., Boesch, C., Leendertz, F. H. (2008). "Pandemic Human Viruses Cause Decline of Endangered Great Apes." Curr Biol.,
8: 260-264
Lankester, F., Matz-Rensing, K., Kiyang, J., Jensen, S. A., Weiss, S., Leendertz, F.H. (2008). "Fatal ulcerative colitis in a western lowland gorilla (gorilla gorilla gorilla)." J Med Primatol.
Leendertz, F. H., Zirkel, F., Couacy-Hymann, E., Ellerbrok, H., Morozov, V. A., Pauli, G., Hedemann, C., Formenty, P., Jensen, S. A., Boesch, C., Junglen, S.
et al. (2008). "Interspecies transmission of simian foamy virus in a natural predator-prey system." J Virol 82: 7741-7744.
Lehmann, J. and Boesch, C. (2008). Sex differences in chimpanzee sociality. International Journal of Primatology 29: 65-81.
Möbius, Y., Boesch, C., Koops, K., Matsuzawa, T., Humle, T.
(2008). "Cultural differences in army ant predation by West African chimpanzees? A comparative study of microecological variables." Animal Behaviour 76: 37-45.
Schoning, C., Humle, T., Möbius, Y., McGrew, W. C. (2008). "The nature of culture: Technological variation in chimpanzee predation on army ants revisited." Journal of Human Evolution 55: 48-59.
Skinner, M. M., Wood, B. A., Boesch, C., Olejniczak, A. J., Rosas, A.,
Smith, T. M., Hublin, J. J. (2008). "Dental trait expression at the enamel-dentine junction of lower molars in extant and fossil hominoids." J Hum Evol 54: 173-86.
Townsend, S.W., Deschner, T. & Zuberbühler, K. (2008) Female chimpanzees use copulation calls flexibly to prevent social competition. PLoS One 3(6): e2431. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002431.
Waal de, F., Boesch, C., Horner, V. and Whiten, A. (2008). Comparing children and apes not so simple. Science, 319, 569.
Zihlman, A. L., Stahl, D. Boesch, C. et al. (2008). "Morphological variation in adult chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) of the Tai National Park, Cote d'Ivoire." Am J Phys Anthropol 135: 34-41.
2007
Boesch C, Head J, Tagg N, Arandjelovic M, Vigilant L, Robbins M (2007) Fatal chimpanzee attack in Loango National Park, Gabon: Observational and genetic evidence. International Journal of Primatology. 28-5
Boesch, C. (2007) What Makes Us Human (Homo sapiens)? The Challenge of Cognitive Cross-Species Comparison. Journal of Comparative Psychology. Vol. 121, No. 3, 227–240
Chi, F., Leider, M., Leendertz, F., Bergmann, C., Boesch, C., Schenk, S., Pauli, G., Ellerbrok, H., Hakenbeck, R. 2007. New Streptococcus pneumoniae Clones in Deceased Wild Chimpanzees. J. Bacteriology 189: 6085–6088
Deschner, T. and Boesch, C. 2007. Can the Patterns of Sexual Swelling Cycles
in Female Taï Chimpanzees be Explained by the Cost-of-Sexual-Attraction Hypothesis?
International Journal of Primatology, Volume 28, Number 2, April 2007 , pp. 389-406(18)
Kuehl, H.S., Todd, A. & Walsh, P.D. Manipulating decay time for efficient large mammal density estimation: gorillas and dung height. Ecological Applications, in press
Kuehl, Hjalmar S., Liz Williamson, Chrickette Sanz, David Morgan and Christophe Boesch (2007). Launch of A.P.E.S. database. Gorilla Journal 34: 20-21
Morgan, D., Sanz, C. 2007. Best Practice Guidelines for Reducing the Impact of Commercial Logging on Wild Apes in West Equatorial Africa. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group (PSG). 32 pp.
Prepens, S., Kreuzer, K.-A., Leendertz, F.H. Nitsche, A., Ehlers, B. 2007. Discovery of herpesviruses in multi-infected primates 1 using locked nucleic acids (LNA) and a bigenic PCR approach. Virology Journal. 4:84.
Sanz, C., Morgan, D. 2007.Chimpanzee Tool Technology in the Goualougo Triangle, Republic of Congo. Journal of Human Evolution, 52 (4): 420-433.
Sanz, C., Morgan, D., Strindberg, S., Onononga, J. R. 2007. Distinguishing between the Nests of Sympatric Chimpanzees and Gorillas in the Goualougo Triangle, Republic of Congo. Journal of Applied Ecology, 44, 263-272.
Schöning, C. T. Humle, Y. Möbius, WC McGrew , in press. The nature of culture: Technological variation in chimpanzee predation on army ants. Journal of Human Evolution
Skinner, M. M.; Wood, B.; Boesch, C.; Oleijniczak, A.; Rosas, A.; Smith, T. M.; Hublin, J. J. (2007). Dental trait expression at the enamel-dentine junction of lower molars in extant and fossil hominoids. Journal of Human Evolution
Todd, A.F., Kuehl, H.S., Cipolletta, C. & Walsh, P.D. Using dung to estimate gorilla density: modeling dung deposition rate. Journal of Applied Ecology, in press
Walsh, P. D., Breuer, T., Sanz, C., Morgan, D., Doran-Sheehy, D. 2007. Potential for Ebola Transmission between Gorilla and Chimpanzee Social Groups. American Naturalist, 169 (5), 684-689.
2006
Anderson, D., Nordheim, E. and Boesch, C. 2006. Environmental factors influencing the seasonality of estrus in chimpanzees. Primates, 47: 43-50
Boesch, C., Kohou, G., Néné, H., and Vigilant, L. 2006. Male competition and paternity in wild chimpanzees of the Taï forest. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 130:103-115
Boesch C, Boesch H, Vigilant L (2006) Cooperative hunting in chimpanzees: kinship or mutualism? In: Cooperation in Primates and Humans, eds. Kappeler PM, van Schaik C. Springer-Verlag Berlin. pp. 139-150.
Carlson, K., Doran-Sheehy, D., Hunt, K., Nishida, T., Yamanaka, A. and Boesch, C. 2006. Locomotor behavior and long bone morphology in individual free-ranging chimpanzees. Journal of Human Evolution , 50(4): 394-404.
Klee, S., Ozel, M., Appel, B., Boesch, C., Ellerbrok, H., Jacob, D., Holland, G., Leendertz, F., Pauli, G., Grunow, R. and Nattermann, H. 2006. Characterisation of Bacillusanthracis-like bacteria isolated from wild great apes from Côte d’Ivoire and Cameroon. Journal of Bacteriology, 188(15): 5333-5344.
Leendertz, F., Lankester, F., Guislain, P., Néel, C., Drori, O., Dupain, J., Speede, S., Reed, P., Wolfe, N., Loul, S., Mpoudi-Ngole, V. Peeters, M., Boesch, C., Pauli, G., Ellerbrok, H. and Leroy, E. 2006. Anthrax in Western and Central African great apes. American Journal of Primatology, Volume 68, Issue 9 , Pages 928 – 933
Leendertz, F., Pauli, G., Maetz-Rensing, K., Boardman, W., Nunn, C., Ellerbrok, H., Jensen, S., Junglen, S. and Boesch, C. 2006. Pathogens as drivers of population declines: the importance of systematic monitoring in great apes and other threatened mammals. Biological Conservation, 131: 325-337.
Leendertz, F., Yumlu, S., Pauli, G., Boesch, C., Couacy-Hymann, E., Vigilant, L., Junglen, S., Schenk, S. and Ellerbrok, H. 2006. A new Bacillus anthracis found in wild chimpanzees and gorilla from West and Central Africa. PLoS Pathogens, 2(1): 1-4
Lehmann, J., Fickenscher, G. and Boesch, C. In press. Kin biased investment in wild chimpanzees. Behaviour Volume 143, Number 8 / August, 2006: 931-955
Morgan, D., Sanz, C., Onononga, J.R., and Strindberg, S. (2006) Ape Abundance and Habitat Use in the Goualougo Triangle, Republic of Congo. International Journal of Primatology, 27 (1), 147-179.
Morgan, D., and Sanz, C. (2006). Chimpanzee Feeding Ecology and Comparisons with Sympatric Gorillas in the Goualougo Triangle, Republic of Congo. Book chapter prepared for Primate Feeding Ecology in Apes and Other Primates: Ecological, Physiological, and Behavioural Aspects, edited by G. Hohmann, M. Robbins, and C. Boesch, pp. 97-122
Sanz, C., and Morgan, D. (2006).Chimpanzee Tool Technology in the Goualougo Triangle, Republic of Congo. Journal of Human Evolution. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2006.11.001
Stumpf, R. and Boesch, C. 2006. The efficiency of female choice in chimpanzees of the Taï forest, Côte d’Ivoire. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology, 60: 749-765.
2005
Boesch, C., Gnakouri, C., Marques, L., Nohon, G., Herbinger, I., Lauginie, F., Boesch, H., Kouamé, S., Traoré M. and Akindes, F.2005. Chimpanzee conservation and theatre: a case study on an awareness project around the Taï National Park, Côte d’Ivoire. In Conservation in the 21st Century: Gorillas as a Case Study (Eds, Stoinski, T., Mehlman, P. and Steklis, D.). New York: Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers
Deschner, T.; Kpelle, D.; Rapid assessment of the primates of Draw River, Boi-Tano and Krokosua Hills, Rap Bulletin of Biological Assessment 36, 73-78 (2005)
Wittig, R. M.; Boesch, C.; How to Repair Relationships - Reconciliation in Wild Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) [Artikel] Ethology 111 (8), 736-763 (2005)
2004
Crockford C, Herbinger I, Vigilant L and Boesch C (2004) Wild chimpanzees produce group-specific calls: a case for vocal learning? Ethology 110: 221-243
Deschner, T., Heistermann, M., Hodges, K. & Boesch, C (2004). Female sexual swelling size, timing of ovulation and male behavior in wild West African chimpanzees. Hormones and Behavior 46, 204-215
Leendertz Fabian H., Boesch Christophe, Ellerbrok Heinz, Rietschel Wolfram, Couacy-Hymann Emmanuel, and Pauli Georg (2004) Non-invasive testing reveals a high prevalence of simian T-lymphotropic virus type 1 antibodies in wild adult chimpanzees of the Tai¨ National Park, Coˆ te d’Ivoire. Journal of General Virology (2004), 85, 3305–3312.
Leendertz F. H., Ellerbrok H., Boesch C., Couacy-Hymann E., Mätz-Rensing K., Hakenbeck V, Bergmann C., Abaza P., Junglen S., Moebius Y., Vigilant L., Formenty P., & Pauli G. (2004) Anthrax kills wild chimpanzees in a tropical rainforest. NATURE VOL 430: 451-452
Leendertz Fabian H. , Sandra Junglen, Christophe Boesch, Pierre Formenty, Emmanuel Couacy-Hymann, Valerie Courgnaud, Georg Pauli, and Heinz Ellerbrok (2004) High Variety of Different Simian T-Cell Leukemia Virus Type 1 Strains in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) of the Taï National Park, Côte d’Ivoire. JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY, Apr. 2004, p. 4352-4356
Leendertz F. H., Ellerbrok H., Boesch C., Couacy-Hymann E., Mätz-Rensing K., Hakenbeck R., Bergmann C., Abaza P., Junglen S., Moebius Y., Vigilant L., Formenty P., Pauli G. 2004. Anthrax kills wild chimpanzees in a tropical rainforest. Nature, 430:451-452.
2003
Bernhard Ehlers, Andreas Ochs, Fabian Leendertz, Michael Goltz, Christophe Boesch, and Kerstin Mätz-Rensing (2003) Novel Simian Homologues of Epstein-Barr Virus. JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY, Oct. 2003, p. 10695-10699
Christophe Boesch (2003) Is Culture a Golden Barrier Between Human and Chimpanzee? Evolutionary Anthropology 12, S. 82–91.
Deschner, T., Heistermann, M., Hodges, K. & Boesch, C. 2003. Timing and probability of ovulation in relation to sex skin swelling in wild West African chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes verus. Animal Behaviour, 66, 551-560.
Ehlers B., Ochs A., Leendertz F. H., Goltz M., Boesch C., Mätz-Rensing K. 2003. Novel simian homologues of Epstein-Barr virus. J. Virol. 77:10695-9.
Leendertz, F. H., Boesch C., Junglen S., Pauli G., Ellerbrok H. 2003. Characterisation of a new Simian T-lymphotropic Virus Type 1 in a wild living chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) from Ivory Coast: Evidence for a new STLV-1 group? Sequence Note. AIDS Res. Hum. Retroviruses 19:255-258.
Roman M.Wittig and Christophe Boesch (2003) The choice of post-conflict interactions in wild chimpanzees (pan troglodytes). Behaviour 140, 1527-1559
Wittig, Roman Martin and Boesch, Christophe (2003) “ Decision-making” in conflicts of wild chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes): an extension of the Relational Model. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 54:491–504
Wittig, Roman M. and Boesch, C. (2003) “Decision-making” in conflicts of wild chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes): an extension of the Relational Model. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 55:209
Wittig, Roman M. and Boesch, C. (2003) Food Competition and Linear Dominance
Hierarchy among Female Chimpanzees of the Ta National Park. International Journal of Primatology, Vol. 24, No. 4
2002
Wittig ,Roman M. (2002) Die anderen Vettern aus dem Wald - 25 Jahre Taï Schimpansen Projekt, Côte d’Ivoire, Westafrika. Phyllodrom, Journal 2002: 49-53
2001
Morin, P.A., Chambers, K.E., Boesch, C., and L. Vigilant 2001 Quantitative PCR analysis of DNA from noninvasive samples for accurate microsatellite genotyping of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus). Molecular Ecology 10: 1835-1844.
2000
Boesch, C. & H. Boesch-Achermann. 2000. The Chimpanzees of the Taï Forest: Behavioural Ecology and Evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 316 pp.
Crockford, C. 2000. Les chimpanzés du Parc National de Taï utilisent-ils des signaux référentiels ou symboliques? In: Etat des recherches en cours dans le Parc National de Taï (Girardin, O., Koné, I., Yao, T., eds.). Sempérvira. 9, pp. 41:44.
Deschner, T. 2000. Gonflements sexuels chez les femelles chimpanzés dans le Parc National de Taï: Un signal honnête de l’évolution? In: Etat des recherches en cours dans le Parc National de Taï (Girardin, O., Koné, I., Yao, T., eds.). Sempérvira. 9, pp. 54:58.
Goné Bi, B. Z. 2000. Distribution spatio-temporelle des plantes dont les fruits sont consommés par les chimpanzés du Parc National de Taï. In: Etat des recherches en cours dans le Parc National de Taï (Girardin, O., Koné, I., Yao, T., eds.). Sempérvira. 9, pp. 36:40.
Herbinger, I. 2000. Territorialité chez les chimpanzés. In: Etat des recherches en cours dans le Parc National de Taï (Girardin, O., Koné, I., Yao, T., eds.). Sempérvira. 9, pp. 59:65.
Stumpf, R. 2000. Reproductive Strategies of Female Chimpanzees in the Taï Forest, Côte d’Ivoire. In: Etat des recherches en cours dans le Parc National de Taï (Girardin, O., Koné, I., Yao, T., eds.). Sempérvira. 9, pp. 45:53.
Zinner, D. & T. Deschner. 2000. Sexual swellings in female hamadryas baboons after male take-overs: Deceptive swellings as a possible female counter-strategy against infanticide. American Journal of Primatology. 52, pp. 157:168.
1999
Formenty, P., Boesch, C., Dind, F., Donati, F., Steiner, C., Wyers, M. & B. Le Guenno. 1999. Outbreak of Ebola in wild chimpanzees. Journal of Infectious Diseases. 179 (1), pp. 120:129.
Gagneux, P., Boesch, C. & D. Woodruff. 1999. Female reproductive strategies, paternity, and community structure in wild West African chimpanzees. Animal Behaviour. 57, pp. 19:32.
Gagneux, P., Wills, C., Gerloff, U., Tautz, D., Morin, P., Boesch, C., Fruth, B., Hohmann, G., Ryder, O. & D. Woodruff. 1999. Mitochondrial sequences show diverse evolutionary histories of African hominids. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. 96, pp. 5077:5082.
Whiten, A., Goodall, J., McGrew, W., Nishida, T., Reynolds, V., Yugiyama, Y., Tutin, C.,
Wrangham, R. & C. Boesch. 1999. Cultures in chimpanzees. Nature. 399, pp. 682:685.
Wyers, M., Formenty, P., Cherel, Y., Guigand, L., Boesch, C. & B. Le Guenno. 1999. Histopathological and immunohistochemical studies of lesions associated with Ebola filovirus (CI-strain) in a naturally infected chimpanzee. Journal of Infectious Diseases. 179 (1), pp. 54:59.
1998
Arcadi, C., Robert, D. & C. Boesch. 1998. Buttress drumming by wild chimpanzees: Temporal patterning, phrase integration into loud calls, and preliminary evidence for individual distinctiveness. Primates. 39 (4), pp. 505:518.
Boesch, C. & M. Tomasello. 1998. Chimpanzee and human cultures. Current Anthropology. 39 (5), pp. 591:614.
Le Guenno, B., Formenty, P. & C. Boesch. 1998. Ebola virus outbreaks in the Ivory Coast and Liberia, 1994 - 1995. In: Marburg and Ebola Viruses (Klenk, H.-D., ed.), Berlin, Springer Verlag, pp. 77:84.
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