Chimps and fire!

We just published a brief article on the Fongoli chimps' interactions with wildfires and implications for understanding this aspect of early hominid evolution. The article can be found in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Here is a link to a couple of news articles about the manuscript:

www.news.iastate.edu/news/2009/dec/wildfires

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/1222/2

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/12/23/chimps-dont-run-from-fire%E2%80%94they-dance-with-it/

New article about Fongoli chimps

Just published in the online journal PaleoAnthropology is an article that Paco Bertolani and I wrote about the Fongoli chimpanzees and their behavioral responses to the savanna environment in which they live.

http://www.paleoanthro.org/journal/contents_dynamic.asp