Jackson The Ngogo chimpanzees have been featured in several wildlife documentaries, including Netflix’s Chimp Empire series (2023), the award-winning Rise of the Warrior Apes (2017), and Disney’s Chimpanzee (2012). You can support us and help protect the Ngogo chimpanzees and other animals throughout Kibale in a few ways: ** You can buy official Ngogo Chimpanzee Project gear through our ...
Research at Ngogo With over 200 individuals at its peak, the Ngogo chimpanzee community is by far the largest yet described in the wild. Beginning in 2015, the Ngogo community began the slow process of fissioning into two communities. Adult males of the two daughter communities, named Ngogo West and Ngogo Central, have not peacefully associated since 2018, when the first killing between the ...
A wire neck snare. In an effort to protect chimpanzees and other animals in Kibale National Park from illegal hunting, the Ngogo Chimpanzee Project employs eight teams of local people, who patrol the park for snares and signs of poaching activity.
The Ngogo chimpanzees have been featured in several wildlife documentaries, including Netflix’s Chimp Empire series (2023), the award-winning Rise of the Warrior Apes (2017), and Disney’s Chimpanzee (2012). Our mission The Ngogo Chimpanzee Project’s mission is to conduct scientific research on the Ngogo community of chimpanzees in Kibale National Park, Uganda, to conserve animal ...
Diet of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) at Ngogo, Kibale National Park, Uganda, 2. temporal variation and fallback foods. American Journal of Primatology, 74: 130–144. [PDF] 2011 Langergraber, K.E., and Vigilant, L. (2011). Genetic differences cannot be excluded from generating behavioural differences among chimpanzee groups.
Ngogo Chimpanzee Project researchers, including co-directors David Watts and Kevin Langergraber, seen here, also take part in local conservation-focused events that U.N.I.T.E. for the Environment and other local conservation-focused NGOs organize. Events like Bigodi’s annual Earth Day celebration give us a chance to meet with local schoolchildren and teach them about chimpanzees, our work at ...
Ngogo is about 120 m lower than Kanyawara, and receives slightly less rainfall [Struhsaker, 1997]. Vegetation composition and floristics differ slightly between the sites, partly because of different disturbance histories [Chapman & Lambert, 2000; Lwanga et al., 2000; Struhsaker, 1997].
The Ngogo chimpanzee community was originally studied by Ghiglieri in the late 1970s and early 1980s [Ghiglieri, 1984]. Research and habituation efforts resumed at Ngogo in 1991, and have been continuous since 1995.
The Ngogo study area, in the center of Kibale, is mostly a mosaic of dry-ground forest at various stages of succession, including large tracts of old growth stands adjacent to early- to mid-stage colonizing forests that were grasslands until 1955 or later [Lwanga, 2003].
roductive success at Ngogo as it is in other smaller chimpanzee communities. Males from a wide variety of ranks reproduced with females with whom they had high socio-spatial indices. Together, these results suggest that male –female socio-spatial relationships play a large role in male reproductive success, but they probably neither strongly ...
