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Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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Tortoises on the menu
Wild chimpanzees eat tortoises after cracking them open against tree trunks
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As part of our new quarantine procedures at the Ozouga camp, a wooden cabin has been constructed as a transit between the forest and the camp. All clothes and shoes used in the forest are confined to this hut as a means to reduce contamination risks between humans and chimpanzees.
We have a new PhD candidate, Lara Southern, joining us this year to study the communicative interactions of the Rekambo males with a special focus on how this unique environment may have shaped communicative complexity and individual profiles.

Estienne, V., Mundry, R., Kuehl, H.S., Boesch, C. 2017. Exploitation of underground bee nests by three sympatric consumers in Loango National Park, Gabon. Biotropica, 49 (1), 101-109.